Word: sao
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...villa near Sao Paulo, Brazil, a bitter man sat down and wrote an angry letter to Czechoslovakia's finance minister. Wrote Jan A. Bata (rhymes with got ya), who once controlled Bata Inc. of Zlin, one of the world's largest shoe manufacturers: "What has become of the glorious Czechoslovak enterprise in ten months of national management? . . . What we gathered in 52 . . . years is on the precipice of bankruptcy...
Died. Dr. Julio Prestes de Albuquerque, 63, president-elect (in 1930) of Brazil who was driven into exile (in France and Portugal) by the Vargas revolution; in Sao Paulo, whither he had lately returned...
...Friends Abroad. Not if it practices the free trade it now piously preaches. Actually, as far as cotton is concerned, the U.S. gave up free trade long ago. In the last five years, the price of cotton in the U.S. and the world price (based on prices in Sao Paulo, Brazil) have gone their separate ways (see chart...
ALBERTO GOMES Sao Paulo, Brazil...
...that the war was over-it ended officially in Brazil on Nov. 30-Brazilians had a small problem on their hands. The problem: what to do with 30 German midgets who had been interned in a Sao Paulo schoolhouse during the war. The rumored solution: the supermen would work as waiters in a children's restaurant...