Word: catarina
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...largest known high-grade deposits in the world) pocketed away in the State of Minas Geraes. The Minas Geraes fields are within 200 miles of the coast and north of Brazil's great port, Rio de Janeiro. Coal for smelting is available in Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul. The Brazilian Government had dreamed of developing its steel industry independently, but, finding the financial burden too great, it offered the concession to the highest foreign bidder. Interest lagged except in iron-hungry Germany, where the Krupp combine, according to the Brazilians, tried hard to get the monopoly. Hitler...