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The article focuses on the business climate and environment in Sao Paolo, Brazil. It reveals the similarity of the business environment and characteristics of the area in American cities where in its activities are moderately taken to fit in the relaxation needs of business executives and companies. The city is considered as one of the fastest-growing cities worldwide, and reveals the different foreign businesses that invested in the area due to its several market advantages.

The article presents business news briefs outside the U.S. including the appointment of former Yugoslavian king and queen Peter and Alexandra to Roy de Groot Consultants, an establishment of Monsanto Chemical subsidiary in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and hiring of 330 Italian miners in the British coal mines.

The article profiles African American woman Carolina Maria de Jesus who lived life in a slum area in São Paulo, Brazil. It mentions that Carolina writes the details of her life in notebooks from trash piles, and scavenging scrap paper is one of her jobs. De Jesus was overheard by the reporter Audálio Dantas while talking to a friend about the diary on her life. She earned from her diary compiled by Dantas into a book titled "Quarto de Despejo" (Garbage Room) with 80,000 copies.

The article focuses on Sao Paulo, Brazil as a center for trade in 1966. It states that Sao Paulo is the world's fastest growing large city, which makes it unpredictable and difficult to manage as a market. It says that the city is the biggest industrial hub in South America and its state is nearly two times the size of Illinois. It says that there has never a constant unemployment problem in Sao Paulo, though a depression in 1965 drove employers into layoffs.

The article reports on the first test of a scientific solution to a surplus crop problem that has threatened the whole economy of Brazil. Plastics from unroasted coffee will be manufactured in a five-story pilot plant located in Sao Paulo. The National Coffee Department is the sponsor of the project that will begin in May 1941.

The article offers information on the history and achievements of painter Manabu Mabe. Before his family transferred to Brazil, his father was a ferryboat owner and a hotelkeeper in Japan and later worked as a laborer on a Sao Paulo coffee plantation. Manabu, then, began his passion in calligraphic abstraction painting, which at present garnered him awards in Sao Paulo's Contemporary Art Salon, best painter in oils for Paris' Prix Braun and a scholarship in Paris, France.