Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cunha was an army engineer and newspaper correspondent who went through the fighting and wrote his masterpiece as an "involuntary attack" on the Brazilian army. He wrote it at night, building bridges by day, and the wooden shack in which he composed it, beside his bridge over the Rio Pardo, is a venerated Brazilian relic. A plea for Brazilian unity, it is essentially an encyclopedia, almost as difficult reading as one, with its pages of geology as toilsome as the mountain they describe, its descriptions of droughts as parching as the plains. It is also as informative as an encyclopedia...
Biggest industrial venture is the steel mill at Volta Redonda in the State of Rio de Janeiro. Partly financed by a $45,000,000 Export-Import Bank credit for buying U.S equipment, it will process ore from the enormous, high-grade deposits at Itabíra in the State of Minas Geraes. Eventually, Volta Redonda should supply Brazil with a good part of the steel which must now be imported. U.S. help in this project has won a lot of good will...
...down the Rio Grande Valley, Texas truck farmers were destroying most of the biggest vegetable crop they had ever raised. The losses were figured in millions...
...farmers had no choice. The whole intricate system of food distribution from one of the richest U.S. agricultural regions had collapsed. In other years the bulk of the Rio Grande Valley crops had been shipped to market in trucks that swarmed the highways. (There are few railroads.) But this year only dozens of trucks-not hundreds-appeared. Truck drivers and owners are in uniform, or working in war plants. And many trucks are laid up for lack of tires and parts...
Some disheartened Rio Grande farmers declared they would rather give the vegetables to the Government than plow them under. But they said the Government would have to do its own hauling and harvesting...