Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brazil's green-shirted fascists, the Integralistas, had tried and failed to topple the Getulio Vargas government with some bold gun play in and around the presidential palace. That was in 1938. Last week, in smashing, full-page ads in Rio's leading newspapers, a new, subdued Integralism announced its revival in modern (democratic) dress...
King without a Visa. In Brazil, another royal D.P. had been sitting on his packed bags for months. While they waited for visas to Portugal or France, Carol of Rumania and his statuesque friend, Magda Lupescu, dallied extravagantly at the Quintandinha, a lavish State casino outside Rio de Janeiro. With Carol and Madame dallied the royal Chancellor Ernest Udarianu and his wife, a Cuban valet de chambre and his wife, and the dogs-two black poodles, two Pekingese, a Doberman and a dachshund...
...vision of a transcontinental line was more than just a dream. Through the Alleghany Corp., he has a large block of Missouri Pacific bonds. If he could get the MOP, he would have a line west to Denver-and through MOP's half-control of the Denver & Rio Grande Western, all the way to Salt Lake City. From Salt Lake City to San Francisco runs the Western Pacific, the small but spunky rival of the Southern Pacific (which owns the other half of D. & R. G. W.); Arthur Curtiss James's onetime road might possibly...
...trips to Havana and Rio, hard-dancing Leon Henderson mastered the rumba and the samba. This week the ex-OPA boss was off to Guatemala where he was expected to pick up the native son. With other U.S. experts, he would refurbish Guatemalan economy, try to rein in the country's galloping inflation...
Made-Work. In Rio de Janeiro, Under taker Manoel Pinto and seven ambulance-chasing competitors raced to the home of a new customer, arrived in a dead heat. Awarded the job, happy Pinto promptly dropped dead...