Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President and his fellow champion of the capital switch, a hustling henchman named General Djalma Polly Coelho, see more than mere constitutionality in the scheme. They want Brazilians to expand into the huge areas back of the present narrow strip of coastal settlement. They hope that moving the seat of government beyond present railheads, smack into the healthful, mosquito-free heartland, might start Brazilians colonizing all the way from Belém at the mouth of the Amazon to São Paulo state in the south...
Some of the projects on Orive Alba's calendar are called Mexican TVAs. One will dam the picturesque Papaloapan River near Veracruz, another will use the waters of the Rio del Fuerte, near the Gulf of California, in northwest Mexico. A third project: a joint U.S.-Mexican scheme to use waters from the Rio Bravo (Rio Grande) to irrigate 500,000 acres on each side of the river and generate 200 million kilowatts for joint use. Of the three dams to be built, the first alone will cost more than $35,000,000, of which the U.S. will...
...Chicago, Colonel Robert R. McCormick's arch-Republican Tribune suggested a scheme to penalize states which will not let all their citizens vote...
...their old chief disliked U.S.-style democracy. Brother Viriato had long ago tersely explained the family position: "Democracy was born, matured, ripened and died. The stench from its body pollutes the air." But the socialist talk was new. Perhaps it was a page from Peron's book, a scheme for vote-getting only...
...Machiavellian school is that the USSR economy is today suffering from an acute shortage of farm and industrial manpower. Her eagerness to demobilize is based upon hard-headed, urgent, home need. Because Russia is not naively confident of peace, her disarmament plans can hardly be attributed to a clever scheme for gaining arms supremacy. The second point is that Russia used generous amounts of mechanized equipment in the late struggle and is experimenting with atomic weapons today. It seems extremely unlikely that she will let outsiders convince her that huge masses of men are her finest weapon. Criticism of Soviet...