Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gordon, clearly wrong about the source of Brazil's silk, did not intend to yield an inch on prices. Freight, duty and exchange taxes would make the price of Brazilian stockings, which sell in Rio for the equivalent of $2.50 a pair, from $4 to $5.50 a pair in Canada. All that the price controller was prepared to allow Ottawa retailers was $1.25 to $1.95 a pair, the price of stockings of similar quality...
Meanwhile Colonel Perón and the proud Argentines were exhilarated, most Latin Americans were secretly (or openly) delighted, and even some North Americans were amused to see the brat from the Rio de la Plata stand up and sass back the Colossus of the North...
...piece of sculpture holding a preserved human heart was a new feature of Rio de Janeiro last week. The heart thus honored was that of Brazil's pioneer aviator, Alberto Santos-Dumont, who at Bagatelle, France in 1906 was the first man to fly a heavier-than-air machine in public demonstration (two years before the Wright brothers).*The memorial, in Rio de Janeiro's Aeronautic Museum, was a 10-inch, gold-plated sphere, supported by a winged, kneeling figure in wood. Suspended within the sphere was a crystal ball containing preserving fluid in which floated the cold...
...daring Santos-Dumont committed suicide in Sao Paulo in 1932, at the age of 59. At the time revolution raged in Brazil. Santos-Dumont's body was embalmed by one Dr. Walther Haber-feld, who removed the heart. When political order was restored, the aviator was buried in Rio. Dr. Haberfeld offered the heart to the flyer's family, but they would have none of it. The story was told to Dr. Paulo da-Rocha Gomide, advertising manager of Panair do Brasil (Pan American Airways' Brazilian subsidiary). Quick to see the chance for a graceful...
...Europe was near its end; the postwar world was being planned. But their great continent-and-a-fifth was allowed no voice in its planning. Singly and in groups they had hinted to the U.S. State Department that a Pan-American conference was long overdue. (The last was at Rio de Janeiro two years, nine months ago.) The only answer they got was evasion...