Word: sao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ALBERTO LANDESMANN Sao Paulo, Brazil
Brazil had never seen anything like Ultima Hora (idiomatically: "Up to the Last Minute"). With bright-colored inks on Page One, lavish photographs, six-man reporting teams, cut-rate ads, lotteries and giveaways, Wainer promoted Ultima Hora into top circulation spots in Rio (85,000) and Sao Paulo (90,000). Ungrateful Sammy trained his guns on ex-Boss Chateaubriand's empire (28 newspapers, five magazines, two TV and 19 radio stations), denounced him as a "pirate" and "international rat," ridiculed him in front-page cartoons. Chateaubriand seethed, and bided his time...
WEST Germany's Volkswagen company (TiME, July 20), whose little two-door sedans have made a big hit in Brazil, will shortly build a $32 million production plant near Sao Paulo. By early 1955, Volkswagen, hopes to be turning out 12,000 cars a year in Brazil, give some tough competition to Ford, which opened a $10 million assembly plant there last April...
...Sao Paulo, Brazil...
...Bronx Zoo and one of the world's foremost experts on snakes, made an offer of $1,000 for a skin in excess of 40 ft., but no such skin ever materialized. Dr. Afrānio do Amaral, director of the Butantan Institute (snake farm) in Sao Paulo, has reported an anaconda a little over 25 ft. in length, and this appears to be the world's record...