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João Alberto Lins de Barros, another friend of the U.S., had just resigned as Economic Coordinator. João Alberto was one of the leaders of the liberal revolution that put President Getulio Vargas in the presidency in 1930. Aranha was another. Only one of the revolutionary heroes...
Like most of the world at war, Brazil has been suffering from inflation. Few weeks ago Dictator President Getulio Vargas decreed increases in nearly all wages. So that further price increases would not cancel wage hikes, Economic Coordinator João Alberto Lins de Barros fixed ceilings on all goods...
The long-range plan for the development of Brazil's Far West was being worked out jointly by the Brazilian Government, U.S. Rubber Reserve Co. and Nelson Rockefeller's Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. To speed the rubber output, broad-shouldered, lion-faced Joâ...
Co-authors of the dream are a politician and an engineer. The politician is Joāo Alberto Lins de Barros, Brazil's economic minister. The engineer is Morris Llewellyn Cooke, onetime pupil of Frederick ("Speedy") Taylor (industrial engineer and famous advocate of the speed-up), and for the...
Nora Waln was the first foreigner ever to be admitted to the house; they welcomed her, treated her like one of themselves-all except one woman who had seen her mother raped by foreign soldiers. The Lins begged their visitor to excuse this relative's prejudice. Admitted to their...