Word: brazilians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Santa Glaus & 5%. Many a Brazilian still preferred a flyer in Rio real estate, for a possible 200% profit, to Rockefeller's 5% projects. Others found it hard to believe that Rockefeller was not just trying to give away his money. Some xenophobes spread the story that the projects were just fronts for spying out oil deposits...
Today, after false starts and heavy going, Rockefeller has four projects (besides the mechanization company) that can argue for themselves. On an 867-acre hilltop farm near Jacarezinho, a mixedcapital company has completed its 32nd cross of Brazilian seed corn, has harvested 32 tons of high-yielding hybrid, and sold the lot to Parana and São Paulo farmers. For the world's third largest corn producer, the possibilities of hybrid were scarcely less revolutionary than they had proved for Iowa...
Rockefeller's technicians are out to sell their skilled services and teach Brazilians U.S. know-how. They like to point out that, however small its beginnings, their operation dovetails perfectly with President Dutra's giant five-year plan for national development. Says one: "What we are trying to do is to encourage the investment of Brazilian capital in companies that not only will show a profit but will assist in the economic and social development of Brazil...
...monuments remain. Each year in mid-September, Mineiros rise from their huts and hamlets and journey by foot, by truck and by train over the scarred hills to the shrine-church of Congonhas do Campo. Last week, as they had for a century and a half, some 200,000 Brazilian peasants made the pilgrimage to kiss the sacred image of the Dead Christ in Aleijadinho's Church of the Bom Jesus...
...Europe," Composer Heitor Villa-Lobos once complained, "I am known as Villa-Lobos. In the United States I am only a Brazilian-applauded because of the Good Neighbor policy...