Word: paulo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paulo, Brazil, a street car crashed headlong into a circus elephant. The front of the car was smashed, the elephant lay unconscious. For two hours he held up traffic, while his mate stood by. trumpeted, allowed no one to approach...
...Brazilian planters with individual incomes exceeding $50,000. Most of them spend three lavish months a year in Paris, three decorous months at their massive Baroque mansions in Rio de Janeiro, and the remaining half year supervising their estates. Most of these rich men hail from Sāo Paulo, "The State With a Billion Coffee Trees," which produces over half the world's crop. Most of them believe firmly in the efficacy of a combination in restraint of trade to keep prices high. For over two decades they have been perfecting a combination-really a gigantic, cooperative Coffee...
Inevitably Sāo Paulo's bonanza prosperity caused other Brazilian states to go in heavily for coffee planting, spurred by the lure of high prices created by Sāo Paulo's artificial restraint of trade. As these new plantations have come into production it has proved steadily harder to keep the price of coffee up. Pressure by the potent planters on the Brazilian Government forced the adoption of most dubious expedients by the state. These have included the buying and storing in State warehouses of Brazil's coffee surplus for a number of years, until...
After spending the greater part of the University recess in South America, Dr. Glover M. Allen, associate professor in Zoology, has returned to his duties at the University Museum. Traveling through Sao Paulo with the purpose of establishing mor cordial relations with the local museums, Dr. Allen delivered several public lectures at the National Museum of Natural History and Archaeology of the state of Sao Paulo. Later he journeyed to the Instituto Butantan, where he delivered a short address to the staff. Sao Paulo is an agricultural state in which nearly three-fourths of the world's coffee is grown...
Last week O Estado de Sao Paulo credited TIME with truth telling, flayed spot news stories, cabled from Manhattan and Galveston as "grossly exaggerated, largely false and forged in the correspondents' warm imaginations in an effort to flatter Brazilian readers or 'put over' a joke...