Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Controlled Inflation. In Rio de Janeiro, President Getulio Vargas granted a 60% increase in the price of luncheon in the government-sponsored workers' restaurant. The new price of the luncheon...
...induced I. T. & T. bonanza: a mounting supply of U.S. dollar exchange building up in Latin America. Brazil and Chile, fat with dollars after many lean years, poured $1,425,494 of deferred debts into I.T.& T.'s coffers last year. Last week Sosthenes Behn was in Rio, preparing to back the new trend with more I. T. & T. millions for a skyscraper office building and a big new telephone factory. And in the Argentine, where the company controls 80% of the nation's telephone business, another new factory is almost completed...
...mile-long Moffat Tunnel the radio conked out. But otherwise the first two-way FM radio communication link between engine and caboose was a success. It was tested last week on a Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad heavy freight, making a 1,140-mile round trip between Denver and Salt Lake City...
...June election will be tallish, baldish Dr. Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, leader of the newly organized coalition Alianza Democratica (Democratic Alliance). A none-too-successful President (1934-35), he has wide support among the lower classes, students, others who do not like President Carlos A. Arroyo del Rio...
Certain activities along the Rio Grande last week suggested that Texas wages sometimes loom larger to Mexicans than Texas racial discrimination (TIME, Feb. 7). Word got about that Mexicans were sneaking across the Rio Grande, violating their own Government's embargo and taking jobs on undermanned Texas farms...