Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...share of U.S. truck exports for 1947 will go to Brazil. Transport-starved Brazilians, who produce a lot of beans and rice but have a hard time getting them to market, hailed the news...
...narrow-gauge railway, wood-burning and rachitic, is the regular transport over the 1,000 miles between Rio and the boomtown of Anapolis, in Goiaz (see map). It takes four days & nights by rail to reach Anapolis, gateway to the rich backlands, and longer if the trip is made by road. But from the lush lowlands of the north and the coffee fazendas to the south, 50,000 Brazilians a year are passing through muddy, roughhewn Anapolis in search of new homes and new times, just as U.S. pioneers a century ago left the Atlantic coast and headed west...
Building a Lifeline. Engineer Sayão, an old Government roadbuilder, faced the crisis in communications in his own way. The first thing he did in 1941, when Goiaz rice sold for 15? a bag for lack of transport to markets, was to cut a trail to Anapolis through 100 miles of forests. He soon turned this into the state's best road. Down it last year the colony's trucks carried 30 different products to market-including 20,000 bags of sugar, 12,000,000 pounds of watermelon, 120,000 dozen eggs, 50 jaguar skins...
...kept right on jiggling. But with draft boards apparently locked up for good, and the bubble-gum market bullish, teen-agers were now devoting more time to the complicated business of acting their age. Certain postwar changes in tribal custom, language, taboos, wooing, peculiarities of dress and methods of transport were evident...
...mollify Anglo-Iranian, concerned about selling its own production in Iran, Jersey Standard planned to buy substantial quantities of oil over the next 20 years. To transport it, Anglo-Iranian will build a pipeline from Abadan on the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean-with Standard footing about $30,000,000 of the bill...