Word: sao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sao Luis, on thenorth coast of the Brazilian hump, for fuel...
...Picasso, was later influenced by Primitivist Rousseau, moved on to a preoccupation with quilt-like color patterns, bunchy human figures in machine-like forms. After living in the U.S. for 4½ years during World War II, he painted The Builders, which won this year's $4,000 Sao Paulo international prize; he also designed sketches for the two 30-ft. murals in the U.N. General Assembly building. An off-and-on Communist, he was eulogized by the French Communist Party as "our comrade...
...Sao Paulo Banker Herbert Levy told fretful U.S. businessmen to quit worrying about losing money. Snapped Levy: previous U.S. investors in Brazil have made "excellent profits." In Brazil, he said, "U.S. investors have received $230 million more than they had actually invested...
...Vargas was determined to run for President in 1950. So was the flamboyant Adhemar de Barros, multimillionaire ex-governor of Sao Paulo. Shortly before the election, the two made a deal. Adhemar agreed to withdraw from the race and back Vargas. Vargas agreed to 1) accept a member of Adhemar's party, the social Progressive Party, as his vice-presidential running mate, and 2) support Adhemar in the 1955 presidential election. For the Vice President slot, Vargas foxily insisted on Café Filho, a nominal P.S.P. member. He reasoned that his old enemy would be less troublesome...
...visitors who arrive for the first time in the southern metropolis of Sao Paulo (pop. 2,500,000), Latin America's greatest industrial city, get a startling impression that the great Brazilian tomorrow has already reached high noon in a virtual explosion of civic energy. From downtown hotel windows they can count a dozen or more new office buildings under construction amidst what is already one of the world's most impressive arrays of skyscrapers. Rio de Janeiro (pop. 2,600,000) is undergoing an apartment-house boom only less startling than Sao Paulo's office-building...