Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since 1521, when the first Portuguese colonists settled on her shores, she has provided much of the world's sugar. The gold and diamonds of Minas Gerais made Portuguese monarchs the envy of Europe. The automotive age rode in on Amazonian rubber, and Brazil's terra roxa (red earth) has produced most of the world's coffee...
...People. Brazil's 48 million people are the descendants of Portuguese sugar fazendeiros, African slaves, savage Indians and immigrants from around the world. They include the hard-riding gaúchos of the temperate Rio Grande do Sul pampas; the sickly Indian rubber-gatherers of the steaming Amazon; the sugar-and cocoa-raising nordestinos of the states of Baía and Pernambuco on the Bulge; the driving industrialists of São Paulo...
Just as the Magdalena neared famed Sugar Loaf, her deck plates began to buckle. Captain Lee dropped anchor, for the second time gave the abandon-ship order. Then, with a rending sound like the falling of a giant tree, the ship broke in two, her nose rising crazily...
...Rico Planning, Urbanizing and Zoning Board. The Land Authority tackled the job of enforcing a 40-year-old law limiting holdings of real estate by corporations to 500 acres. By the eve of 1948, the Authority had spent $25 million and reclaimed 70,000 acres, mostly from the big sugar companies, in order to establish land cooperatives and subsistence homesteads. (Its costly land-purchase program has now been slowed considerably; the budget allotment for next year...
...acted sometimes like a high-minded idealist, sometimes like a job-hungry political boss. Muñoz, on the other hand, found it difficult to convince Tugwell that even an idealistic politician needs enough patronage to grease the machine and win the next election. Tugwell, under fire from the sugar industry, the press and the U.S. Congress for most of is stay, resigned...