Word: brazilianizing
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...Brazilian Backfire. Hitler's U-boat campaign had backfired in one important respect. It had drawn Brazil closer to total participation in the war than any amount of diplomatic maneuvering could accomplish. Spurred by the torpedoing of seven Brazilian ships, the Brazilian Air Force joined U.S. flyers in tracking down U-boats off Brazil. By week's end Brazilian airmen were credited with sinking at least one U-boat, U.S. flyers on the scene with two more, while other sectors of the Atlantic front saw these incidents...
...Brazilian workers mourned a decomposing head and two half-devoured arms-the dubious remains of a national hero...
...outside of the U.S. is carried over CBS-a weekly Calling Pan America program-but the network hopes for more. Working mouth in microphone with CBS is Nelson Rockefeller's Office for the Coordination of Inter-American Affairs, which supplies programs and suggestions. For instance, Dr. Julio Barata, Brazilian radio chief (TIME, March 30), now makes a five-minute broadcast daily from Manhattan in which he comments on U.S. news for Brazilian listeners, calls a spade a spade...
...private life "Maria," as she signs herself, is Senhora Carlos Martins Pereira e Souza, wife of the Brazilian Ambassador to the U.S. Her work has been shown at Manhattan's Riverside Museum and Washington's Corcoran Gallery...
Partly because Nazi subs got four Brazilian freighters, which caused Brazil temporarily to withdraw all her shipping, U.S. coffee imports have been dwindling. In April only 1,000,000 bags were unloaded on U.S. docks, 40% less than three months before. Furthermore, U.S. stocks of coffee last December were about 4,000,000 bags, enough for three months; by May 1, according to Commodity Research Bureau figures, they were down to 3,140,000 bags. But more supplies are in prospect and U.S. coffee-fiends need not fear any immediate shortage. Meanwhile the Army is boosting U.S. coffee consumption...