Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prosperous Rio de Janeiro well-to-do wives had caught the gin rummy fever. They called it "Pif-Paf" (pronounced peef-paff). They began their games at teatime, played for high stakes. At dawn they went to bed white with exhaustion, slept with the aid of sedatives. Next teatime they began all over again. The local press reported that they were running into debt, pawning their jewels, neglecting their husbands and children...
...Cried Rio's Diario Carioca: "Pif-Paf is enslaving, fascinating, completely dominating hundreds and hundreds...
...will be no novelty to Careerist Caffery, who has served U.S. interests abroad through six administrations. A Louisianian who studied to be a lawyer, Caffery went to work for the State Department when he was 24. He has since seen service in Stockholm, Teheran, Paris, Madrid, Athens, Berlin, Havana, Rio de Janeiro and points between...
This ambitious program would shoot Pan Am's postwar Latin American plane miles to 43.3 million a year v. 8.3 million in 1941; it would make available each year 58,976 airliner seats to Rio v. a mere 8,000 passages (both airliner seats and first-class steamer berths...
...this Good-Neighborly decade the U.S. has been abundantly supplied with books about Latin America by U.S. writers. But The Green Continent is the first attempt to give U.S. readers a "comprehensive picture of the lands and people below the Rio Grande" by Latin-American writers. As such it is a notable-and readable -contribution to Pan-American understanding. It is an anthology edited by, a Colombian sociologist (for two years a visiting professor in the U.S.) of 33 selections from Latin-American history and fiction of the past 100 years. It tells about Latin America from the 16th Century...