Word: sao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...giant. In population (57 million) it nearly matches all the other nine republics of South America put together. In area (3,287,842 sq. mi.) it is the world's biggest republic, big as the U.S. with a second Texas thrown in. In such big cities as Sao Paulo (see opposite page), the fastest-growing major metropolis, a new breed of Brazilian businessmen is changing the face of the land with a zeal unmatched in all of Latin America...
...Latin America, where government violations of the press are the order of the day. the Inter-American Press Association is the only organized voice of press freedom. Last week, at its tenth annual meeting in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, the outspoken representatives of 390 newspapers and magazines from the Western Hemisphere demonstrated why I.A.P.A. has become the most effective force for an unfettered press in Latin America...
...city to squelch further outbreaks. But in Porto Alegre, capital of Vargas' home state of Rio Grande do Sul, mobs fired the U.S. consulate and offices of two U.S. firms. Six died and more than a hundred rioters were wounded as troops dispersed them with gunfire. In Sao Paulo, police guns halted attacks on two U.S. company offices, wounding...
...years after Vargas had promised to roll back food prices, living costs had climbed 30%, and 250,000 Sao Paulo workers quit their factories in hunger-sparked strikes. Even in the midst of a record coffee boom, Vargas' erratic economic policies weakened the currency, drained the treasury, piled up nearly a $2 billion deficit in overseas trade, and almost pricepegged Brazil's No. 1 product out of the U.S. coffee market. Driving desperately to win back working-class support for the 1954 congressional elections. Vargas recently doubled Brazil's minimum wage, despite ominous growls by the army...
...cancer research conference held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Russian scientists announced flatly: "Studies made in Russia [indicate] that there is no relation between tobacco and cancer . . . We do not consider this a problem of importance...