Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...completed during the war. New Orleans still sends only two flights south each day to rival Miami's 34, but when four-engined stratospheric giants take over the Latin American shuttle, Moisant's 7,000-ft. runway will be an insignificant hour and 50 minutes farther from Rio and Buenos Aires than Miami...
...bomb-chesty body of a four-engined Lancastrian (converted Lancaster bomber) rumbled up Buenos Aires' Morón airport, rose easily over the Plata estuary, and shrank into the east. A good turnout of proud British clapped politely. Regular biweekly service from Argentina to London (via Montevideo, Rio, Natal, Bathurst, Lisbon), by the soon-to-be-nationalized British South American Airways (B.S.A.A.), had begun...
...shipments to Europe; if Britain and the U.S. wanted food for Europe, they would have to pay for it with more than money. By withholding wheat shipments to Brazil until the Brazilians ponied up with 10,000 tires for Peró's trucks, bread queues were threatened in Rio...
Cooks and maids of Rio de Janeiro were incensed. Ex-Provisional President José Linhares, they said, was creating unemployment. Before he handed over Guanabara Palace to incoming President Eurico Caspar Dutra last Jan. 31, he had made his colored cook Rosa an assistant postmistress. Then, being without a cook, he put up at the Copacabana Palace Hotel...
...Rio taxi drivers, disgruntled by the troublesome regulations decreed by Linhares during a taxi strike, joined the hexing. Said one darkly: "We've chipped in to buy ten boxes of good cigars for the god Omulo to make the charm work. Linhares had better not take an airplane...