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Word: adil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brazil already has a small but smartly trained air force. The general staff (see cut) includes Deputy Chief of Staff Colonel Carlos Brazil, Colonel Vasco Secco of the Joint Brazil-U.S. Air Commission, Lieut. Colonel Raimundo Aboim, Lieut. Colonel Loyla Daher, Lieut. Colonel Carlos Coelho and Aviation Major Adil de Oliveira. The navy was augmented by six warships, built in Brazilian shipyards for Great Britain and now returned by Britain to its new ally. To help Brazil tune up its war program, U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery returned to Rio from a vacation in the U.S. with prospective solutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Growing Strength | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

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