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Biggest industrial venture is the steel mill at Volta Redonda in the State of Rio de Janeiro. Partly financed by a $45,000,000 Export-Import Bank credit for buying U.S equipment, it will process ore from the enormous, high-grade deposits at Itabíra in the State of Minas Geraes. Eventually, Volta Redonda should supply Brazil with a good part of the steel which must now be imported. U.S. help in this project has won a lot of good will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Neighbor's Future | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

...criticize the frequent lower-case spelling of Diesel but to spotlight the fact that the name of the engine had eclipsed the name of the man. Some other scientific words (besides watt and ampere) from the names of great pioneers: ohm, coulomb, gauss, henry, maxwell, gilbert, volt (from Volta), galvanize (from Galvani...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 3, 1941 | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

...Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser; Hodding Carter, 32, of The Delta Democrat Times, Greenville, Miss.; Edward A. Wyatt 4th, 29, of the Progress-index, Petersburg, Va.; Weldon B. James, 26, foreign correspondent of the United Press; William B. Diekinson, Jr., 30, Northwest news manager of the United Press, Minneapolis, Minn.; Volta W. Torrey, 34, news review editor of the Associated Press, New York City; William P. Vogel, Jr., 28, city hall reporter of The New York Herald Tribune; Oscar J. Buttodahl, 35, editor of The Leader, Bismarck, N. D.; Glenn C. Nixon, 31, economic reporter on The United States News, Washington...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant, Frankfurter Dine With Nieman, Fellows as Journalists Begin Study | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Though he has been away from Ireland since 1904, returning only briefly in 1912 to start a motion-picture house, the Volta, which quickly failed, Joyce has an unrivaled knowledge of Dublin and its current life, keeps his recollections green by subscribing to Dublin newspapers, pores over their gossip and chitchat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Night Thoughts | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Unto U. Uotila, Research Fellow in Physiology and in Anatomy, Volta R. Hall Jr., of Cleveland, O., Research Fellow in Psychiatry. James Y. Bogue, of London, England, Research Associate in the Fatigue Laboratory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOLDSTEIN CHOSEN TO WILLIAM JAMES CHAIR | 2/15/1938 | See Source »

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