Word: bahia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discovered that the Lamp Post had just died of tuberculosis in the State of Sergipe. Last week Brazil was happier still. The Department of National Telegraphs was able to report the Lamp Post's third death: near the town of Villanova, 230 miles north of Sao Salvador, Bahia, the police of Alagoas State aided by a posse of civilians caught up with the bandit and in a desperate gun fight killed him, eleven confederates, his mistress...
...largest proportion of the crop, an early season drought deprived trees of needed moisture. Cocoa figures are notoriously hard to get but when harvest time came on the Gold Coast in October, crop estimate for that area dropped from 260,000 ton to 235,000. In Brazil, whose bahia crop is the world's second largest, plantations were kept up better during cocoa's dark days, and total world shipments actually rose from 542,000 tons in 1929 to 675,000 in 1935. Yet so important is the crop of African beans that their sudden scarcity...
That done, the President steamed away on the cruiser Houston for the mainland at Bahia Honda, Panama. There he got the first mail he had seen since leaving San Diego, Calif, ten days before, stopped for more fishing in the Gulf of Panama...
...thousand pounds of lobster were a mere nothing. Up the broad Plata nosed the Brazilian battleship São Paulo with President Vargas aboard, the cruisers Bahia and Rio Grande do Sul, escorted by two Argentine battleships, six cruisers and a squadron of destroyers. High overhead zoomed a squadron of 13 Brazilian naval planes that had flown all the way from Rio de Janeiro. There should have been 18, but three were forced down at Rio Grande do Sul and two were reported missing. Crowds along the waterfront cheered the survivors to the echo...
...AMERICAN BAHIA 1217 N 1750 W 224 TRUE OK KHCAL...