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...Azul had become a legend since the day in 1929 that a U.S. geologist, studying the trackless Montana for a possible railroad, spotted from the air what has since been described as the nearest thing to a perfect geological oil dome. A 2,800-mile supply line up the Amazon, oil diplomacy, and proliferating jungle postponed the payoff till 1939. Then Ganso Azul drilled a well that was a honey: 750 barrels a day. Thenceforth, the problem was not producing but selling...
...week a Panair do Brasil plane glided into a new airfield in the town of Governador Valladares, in inland Minas Gerais state. Aboard were the atabrine, antiseptics and insecticides that the U.S.-and Brazilian-sponsored SESP (Servigo Especial da Saude Publica) now flies to 32 backwoods outposts, from, the Amazon to the Mato Grosso. Crowds watched the plane come in. In other "lost towns" other crowds watched the landings of planes of Cruzeiro, Vasp, Aerovias do Brasil...
...Archipelago. Brazilians like to point out that their vast country is really an archipelago of widely scattered population islands that only airlines can tie together. It used to take 13 days, by the quickest transportation, to get from Rio to Manaus near the mighty Amazon. Now, with stops along the way, flying boats and land planes cover the 2,000 miles in two days. Planes cut the distance to doctors in a country short of skilled specialists. A hundred lively aero-clubs, sponsored by the Government, have brought planes to many parts of Brazil before the motorcar; some 600 airfields...
...palace coup hardly rippled the crowds of Cariocas on Rio's lovely, white-sand beaches. The echo was even fainter to the great mass of Brazilians (some 75% illiterate) who crowd the sea coast and are scattered through the vast Brazilian interior. Seringueiros (rubber workers) in the flowered Amazon jungle, garimpeiros (diamond hungers) far to the west in the State of Goiaz, and gaúchos on the broad ranges of Rio Grande do Sul probably would not hear the news for days and weeks...
Villa-Lobos: Seréstas (Jennie Tourel, with orchestra conducted by Villa-Lobos; Columbia, 4 sides). The Metropolitan soprano trills nationalistic Brazilian serenades like an Amazon jungle bird. Performance: excellent. Recording: fair...