Word: bahia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kept jailed for nine of them, had joined to get control of rich São Paulo State. To get some democratic backing against this alliance, Dutra had only one course, and he took it. He called on the opposition U.D.N. (National Democratic Union) Party for support. To steaming Bahia sped an Air Force plane to pick up State Governor Octávio Mangabeira, the U.D.N. leader...
...Army's ouster of Getulio Vargas two years ago was Mangabeira's invitation to pick up, at 59, the political career cut short 15 years before. Since then, he has worked fast-guiding U.D.N., helping to write Brazil's new constitution, getting himself elected governor of Bahia...
...Brazilian Government angrily announced last week that U-boats had sunk five more Brazilian ships, one loaded with troops, off the coast between Bahia and the state of Sergipe. Though 13 other Brazilian vessels had been sunk previously, these were the first in coastal trade. The Vargas Government, denouncing the Axis, promised the crimes would not go unpunished...
...twelve bases (see map,p. 90) are at Amapá, Belém, Sao Luiz, Camocim, Fortaleza, Natal, Recife, Maceió, Bahia. Seven are land ports, five sea. (Pan Am is still negotiating for another land base at Bahia.) At each project, 500 to 800 men are at work...