Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Omaha and escorting destroyer Jouett could overtake her, the quarry blew herself up. Next day the sea drama was repeated; still another blockade-runner went to the bottom. The U.S. ships rescued most of the crewmen, presently learned that the vessels they had sunk were the German freighters Rio Grande, Burgenland and Weserland. One unexpected trophy of the chase was several hundred tons of baled rubber, blown free of the ships and floating...
Horacio Guimares, a workman, lived in the village of Nilopolis,an hour's ride from Rio de Janeiro. Next door lived Ricardina Rosario da Silva, "Mae de Santo" (High Priestess) of a fetishistic, voodoo-like cult which Brazilians call "Macumba." Pious worshipers filled Ricardina's yard, clapped and stomped, chanted and sang, screamed and shouted outside Horacio's door...
After the Big Three Conference at Teheran, Brazil's anti-Communist Government emitted some faintly friendly noises about the Soviet Union. From Rio de Janeiro last week came news that the Government post office hereafter will allow letters written in Russian to pass between Brazil and sister United Nations. Brazil had apparently: 1) taken another small step toward recognition of the U.S.S.R.; 2) hired a censor who can read Russian...
Mexicans call the Rio Grande the Río Bravo (Wild River). Last week border citizens heard that the Río Bravo may be tamed and put to use; the U.S. and Mexican Governments have signed (but not yet ratified) a treaty under which the two countries will put up some $25,000,000 each for a series of dams to control and store the river's waters for irrigation...
There are some 3,815,000 radios south of the Rio Grande. This new TIME program will be broadcast to them twice a week over more than 70 stations in 17 Latin American countries-during the evening hours when Latin Americans (like North Americans) find it most convenient to listen...