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After that, powerful army units fanned through the 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Week of Rioting | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

Lawyer son of a famous Indian fighter who lived to be 99, Vargas first rode out of Rio Grande do Sul in 1930 at the head of a gaucho army and seized the presidency. In power. Vargas rapidly won a name as the smartest politician in South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Goodbye to a Gaucho | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

...clerks and factory workers was the racking pressure of ten years of rising prices. Despite all the government's promises, food costs were 27% more than a year ago; within the week, the price of rice had nearly doubled because the neighboring state of Rio Grande do Sul had suddenly embargoed shipments to avert a shortage of its own. Electric-power rationing caused by drought had shortened factory hours and thus cut take-home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Wrathful Protest | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

...upholstering materials, wire insulation. To be built in partnership with B. F. Goodrich Co., the plant will be the first of its kind in South America. Typically, it is a natural outgrowth of another Matarazzo venture-a caustic-soda plant adjoining the site at São Caetano do Sul. "It is the Rolls-Royce of products," Count Matarazzo announced with finality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: An Even Billion | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

...fatal infections. The drug was Prontosil; from it came sulfanilamide, first of the modern "wonder drugs" and first of a long line of sulfas. Other companies were the first to find high-powered, patentable variants like sulfamerazine, sulfadiazine, sulfathiazole and sulfaguanidine. Merck chemists got what looked like a dud: sul-faquinoxaline. Never proved safe for human use, it might have been shelved. Then animal tests showed that sulfaquinoxa-line is wonderful for protecting chickens against coccidiosis, a deadly parasitic disease. By now, the sulfas have been largely superseded by newer and better drugs (mainly antibiotics) for humans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: What the Doctor Ordered | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

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