Word: coastal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...savage coastal jungles there are many wild rubber trees. In the remote mountains and inland plains grows the cinchona tree (quinine); there grow also fique, pita and malba, all tough fibrous plants. With Colombia's aid the U.S. may replace some of the rubber, quinine and hemp lost to the United Nations in the Far East...
...Hitler is ready. Or so, at least, the Allies must assume. Last week Nazi Elite Guards and a two-mile column of tanks, troop-carriers and artillery paraded down the Champs-Elysees in Paris. Dr. Goebbels practically invited British and U.S. troops ("those MacArthurs") to invade coastal Europe (see col. j). D.N.B. reported in fearsome detail the strength, depth and impregnability of the Nazi's coast defenses. With all of these noises the Germans were cooking propaganda. But R.A.F. reconnaissance, R.A.F. losses over northern France and underground reports from Occupied Europe all attest to strong German armies waiting...
Actual entrance into war found her ready to do her part quietly, without fanfare. Mexico, which has confiscated just under a billion dollars' worth of Axis property, created special coastal defense commands, bombed one enemy submarine, last week announced the impending conscription of an army...
...half the Russian air force is held there, that the Far Eastern Red Army has not been appreciably drained for war in the west. Naval information is even vaguer than military, but in 1939 Russia's Pacific Fleet was reported to consist of 18 destroyers, 90 submarines, 80 coastal motorboats, 32 gunboats, 75 mosquito boats...