Word: brazilianizing
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...Germans. In New York, where the Drottningholm was making ready to carry 940 Axis repatriates home via Lisbon, they denounced so loudly the mixing of diplomats and notables that the sailing was all balled up. In Brazil they protested the accommodations on a ship especially refurbished for a Brazilian-Axis exchange via Lisbon. In other South American countries, acting on their own initiative, they asked permission to stay even if interned. Others wangled or wandered into Argentina and Chile, only two countries left where they were officially welcome. Wherever they could, they bought up all the silk stockings and leather...
...another sinking ship the gun crew kept blazing away at the sub, shattered the U-boat's periscope before a second torpedo finished off the U.S. vessel. > Somewhere along the Brazilian bulge, a heavily armed Norwegian ship tangled with a U-boat, blew it to bits. > The Hartford Courant reported that marine claims filed against insurance companies for U.S. ships lost since Jan. i were $48,000,000; lost cargo claims were $25,000,000; total $73,000,000. This was $17,000,000 more than the premiums paid, almost completely wiped out all marine-insurance profits...
...Africa; over the Pacific to U.S. outposts, to China, the Dutch East Indies and Australia. The U.S.-Africa run was started only four months ago by veteran over-water flyers -mostly from Pan American Airways. Planes now take off from Florida, hop-skip across the West Indies to steaming Brazilian airports, then jump 1,700 miles to Africa's wild & woolly Gold Coast...
...Janeiro, the Government has some 200 enemy agents interned. Most difficult of the lot are the Japs, who make a point of posing brazenly in bemedaled uniforms. Before they are captured, however, they mask themselves in ingenious disguises. Dusting a bit of sod off a Jap farmer, Brazilian police discovered what was purportedly General Yusci Tonogawa. Another Jap turned up in the uniform of the Brazilian Officers' Reserve Corps...
...kitchen of a Brazilian industrialist that the strangest agent of them all was bagged. Brushing back the coarse black hair of the family cook, Brazilian cops were confronted by a captain of the Japanese Army. For five years he had been posing as a woman, and was rated a fine hand with a saucepan...