Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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International relations were just about as touchy in the Americas as they were in Europe. They worsened last week when the U.S. State Department abruptly caused postponement of the Inter-American Conference on Peace and Security, which was to have opened in Rio on Oct. 20. The State Department explanation: the U.S. could have no dealings with the Argentine militarists whom the U.S. had welcomed back in the Hemispheric fold only seven months ago. The Latin American fear: that the Good Neighbor policy of joint action was being scrapped...
Stiffening Lip. In Washington, where Ambassador Spruille Braden had arrived from Argentina to take over the direction of Latin American affairs, the mood was for a stiffer U.S. policy toward the dictators. After a talk with Braden in Rio. U.S. Ambassador Adolph Berle informed Brazilians (and President Getulio Vargas was listening) that the U.S. expected the upcoming Presidential elections to go through on schedule. This statement, coupled with Braden's spectacular campaign against Peron, augured a vigorous U.S. policy at the imminent (Oct. 20) Inter-American Conference in Rio...
Lepers were on the loose in Rio. Slipping out of a Sࣀ Paulo asylum and eluding spotters, at least a dozen of them entered the capital, mingled in cinema crowds, sipped coffee at sidewalk cafes. They told horrifying stories of life in the leprosaria: the guards were brutal, the food inedible, medical care nonexistent...
Beckoned by special advertisements in Rio's newspapers, 150 relatives, friends and gawkers boarded a special train which Gabriella had provided. On Corcovado's peak, while the crowd waited an hour for Gabriella to arrive (by limousine), a vendor did a bang-up business in sandwiches and bananas. Then the cloud curtain parted. A brilliant sun laid Rio bare and dazzling, 2,300 ft. below. Madame Lage strode on stage. Beneath the statue of Christ the Redeemer, a priest intoned a short service. In 15 minutes, it was all over...
...good example of how the railroads will pamper their passengers with new equipment was the $6 million, 60-car order which, last week, was ready for signing with the Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co. Three railroads (the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, the Denver & Rio Grande Western, the Western Pacific) plan to operate the new equipment in ten-car, diesel-powered daily streamliners be tween Chicago and San Francisco. The first of the new trains will go into service next summer...