Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mexico. Thus the one U.S. domestic airline which joined hands with Pan American Airways in sponsoring the "chosen instrument" policy for international flying after the war (TIME, Aug. 23) became the first (except for American's direct flights to Mexico City) to compete with Pan Am below the Rio Grande...
...legal authority for it. The new Brazilian Constitution which Vargas proclaimed in 1937 authorized him, for purposes of defense, to "dismember" Brazilian states and convert them into Federal territories (like Alaska), governed from Rio de Janeiro under special laws. Vargas' new territories, carved from five states (Para, Amazonas, Matto Grosso, Paraná, Santa Catharina), create a strip of centrally controlled buffer areas along the frontiers between Brazil and nine of its neighbors...
Ever since Pearl Harbor, the Civil Aeronautics Board has resolutely looked the other way almost every time a U.S. airline asked for permission to fly new routes below the Rio Grande. Last week it turned a dizzy somersault. CAB now begged all comers to apply for flights to Mexico, Central and South America and the Caribbean...
...visa to go home. He explained that he had been proposed as candidate of the Conservative and Socialist parties in the June 1944 Presidential elections. Nevertheless, ex-President Velasco Ibarra got no visa. On the Ambassador's desk lay instructions from the Government of President Carlos Arroyo del Rio "not to issue a re-entry permit to Velasco Ibarra nor to take into account newspaper dispatches from Quito saying he could return...
President Arroyo del Rio was taking no chances. Three times within the last eight years Ibarra had been involved in revolutionary uprisings. Once in 1940, when Arroyo del Rio was winning the elections, Ibarra staged a coup which almost succeeded. In 1935 the Army toppled Velasco on charges of dictatorship, but this did not hurt the ex-President's popularity with many Ecuadorians. Last week a group of sailors in the Island of Puna staged a revolt in his name which was put down by force of arms...