Word: paulo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...promise of water was everywhere. The Norrises sent for their family. In the next six months, some 80 other American families joined them, and by 1894, the area was so thoroughly American that paulistas took to calling it Villa Americana, a name which the state of Sao Paulo later made official...
...snug and thriving little (pop. 10,000) industrial town, opened a new $6,500,000 hydroelectric plant to power its mills, synthetic fertilizer factories, distilleries and farm-machinery assembly plant. Dr. Jones, who is also a city councilman, was one of those on hand to greet Sao Paulo's beefy, ambitious Governor Adhemar de Barros and the planeload of federal officials who flew in for the inauguration of the power plant...
Half a Million Kilowatts. In 1953, when the first generators are to be installed, the Paulo Afonso plant will produce 120,000 kw. for the five neighboring states of Pernambuco, Alagoas, Paraiba, Sergipe and Baia, doubling their present supply. When all nine of the planned generators are in operation, the output will be approximately i½ times as much as Wilson Dam at Muscle Shoals...
CHESF began as a gleam in the eye of Pernambuco's Senator Apolonio Sales, Minister of Agriculture under the Vargas dictatorship. Sales saw Paulo Afonso as part of a larger, TVA-style plan for development of the whole valley, with irrigation, flood-control and sanitation schemes. He was swept out of office in the avalanche that toppled Vargas, but not before both CHESF and the Sao Francisco Valley Authority (for which plans are still incomplete) had been...
...CHESF's engineers, as to most Brazilians, Paulo Afonso's progress is a matter of national pride. Impatient at the delay in getting heavy earth-moving equipment over back roads, CHESF's shirtsleeved, roly-poly President Jose Antonio Alves de Souza told his men to go ahead without it. As his barefooted laborers struggled last week to haul rude, four-handled wooden trays of rock from the darn excavations, Alves de Souza said: "Sure, we've got too many men here now. But we can't just sit and wait for the machinery to come...