Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dutra's candidacy got a roasting from Rio de Janeiro dailies, most of which support the Opposition candidate, General Eduardo Gomes. When Dutra's campaign manager, Benedito Valadares, attended a football game in Sāo Paulo, the crowd booed him out of the stadium...
...vigilant, self-reliant citizens of southern Texas' Rio Grande Valley knew little about the newly formed Rio Farms, Inc.; but what little they did know made them mighty suspicious. That...
...deal. Congressmen were bombarded with protests. Wrathy editorials inveighed against the new "little Soviet." About the best anyone would predict for the model community, or corporation, or self-liquidating cooperative, or whatever it was, was a short and futile life. By last week they had changed their views. Rio Farms was a capitalistic enterprise, after all, and a paying one to boot...
...their first fiscal year, the 100-odd grateful Rio tenants had confirmed the gloomiest predictions, lost $25,712 reviving the run-down land. In February 1943, FSA Assistant Regional Director W. A. Canon, who had envisioned the project and almost singlehandedly set it going, called in big, capable FSAman Sam D. Tayloe to manage the farms. Tayloe quit FSA to take the job. Almost immediately, things began to improve...
...September, Rio's board of directors had assumed full administrative control, and FSA had become only a lien holder. Then, in January 1945, Manager Tayloe walked proudly into the FSA office in Dallas with a check for $933,000. The entire federal mortgage had been paid off in three years, 47 years before it was due; the tenants were happy and reasonably prosperous, and the corporation had enough cash in the till to donate $20,000 to Texas agricultural experimenters...