Word: vilas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...build roads. In 38 communities in the Jequitinhonha valley, the teams taught 52 hygiene courses, helped construct 300 septic tanks, pulled 30,000 teeth and administered vaccine shots to 150,000 persons. At an abandoned road-construction camp in north-central Brazil, one crew even started a town called Vila Rondón that now boasts a new school and other municipal services for 5,000 people...
...Rubber's big news lay less in its record first-quarter net income of $9,751,656 than in the fact that the company is changing its name. The old handle, according to Chairman-President George R. Vila, was just too confining for an internationalized company that has expanded into the fields of chemicals, plastics, textiles and fibers. Therefore, U.S. Rubber is now known as Uniroyal...
...recently put the torch to an entire hillside favela after moving 684 families into the new Vila Alianca housing development. But Brazilian cities must build one new house or apartment every two minutes to keep up with the growth rate-and even Sao Paulo's amazing building boom is good for only one every ten minutes...
Caught in a Jam. At 3 a.m. the morning that Goulart was to present his request for a state of siege to Congress, a Goulart friend, Brigadier General Alfredo Pinheiro, accompanied by Lieut. Colonel Abelardo Mafra, appeared at the Vila Militar base in suburban...
...designated to represent the Council in negotiating for a debate, Herminio Portell Vila, was sitting in his hotel room in Washington, D.C. last night. He described himself as "very comfortable and very relaxed...