Word: brazilianizing
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...Paulo deprived the Japs of 42 high-powered speedboats. The most sinister Jap enterprise discovered was the outfitting of a small port near Jaquiá, about 90 miles southwest of Santos, with gasoline stores and a special dock suitable for submarines. Although no Axis subs have yet appeared in Brazilian waters, the Government was sure the Jaquiá doings meant that they were planning visits...
Mexican tires are "made of guayule rubber, with small amounts of Brazilian crude...
...Brazilian rubber is used...
...things that genial, low-voiced Dr. Barata has lately done for President Vargas is to forbid all foreign-language broadcasts in Brazil and to put an end to the use by Brazilian stations of all Axis news services. One of his worries has been clandestine radio communication between Axis agents on the Brazilian coast and German submarines at sea. A lesser worry has been short-wave propaganda from Berlin- telling Brazilians they are being taken into a war that is already lost...
Manhattan's great American Museum of Natural History has rented a bank in an unnamed inland spot to store its choicer small fossils, a collection of rare Brazilian birds, type specimens of a pygmy elephant, a West African crocodile, etc. The Museum's dinosaur collection, world's best, is not being hurried to safety. "The dinosaurs have already withstood a 200,000,000 year blackout," said a fossil expert, "and they ought to survive the war. Besides, if they are bombed, it might be fun putting them back together again...