Word: condors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moved from the hump, where sea and air patrols had been stepped up. Seventeen Axis ships had been seized and three of Brazil's largest Axis-owned banks-with assets of nearly $35,000,000-had been closed by presidential decree. A final step in severing the Brazilian Condor airline from German-owned Lufthansa had been taken: its property now belonged to the Government...
...droop-mouthed Field Marshal Hugo Sperrle. Fat as he is, Sperrle knows how to move fast, how to stretch an air force and still get the most out of it. One of Göring's white-haired (before he lost it) boys, Hugo Sperrle commanded the famed Condor Legion in Spain, did wonders with short and ill-assorted equipment. He went through Poland, the Lowlands, France. He knows what air war is about...
...possibilities was the fact that Bremen's sprawling docks funnel most of the German Army's supplies to Norway. It is a funnel that must be plugged if Norway should be the site of a frontal assault. Bremen, too, was the home of commerce-raiding, long-range Condor planes and the Focke-Wulf aircraft plant, where some of Hitler's deadliest fighter planes were built. Aerial photographs showed that Focke-Wulf machine and pressing shops had sustained a heavy bomb hit, destroying a quarter of the buildings and extensively damaging the rest. The British believed that Focke...
...State Department was negotiating with Brazil to ground Lati and Condor, its German-controlled colleague in the interior of Brazil. Until Brazil had substitutes, Lati and Condor were a necessary evil. So, pending a solution, the State Department had an agreement with Standard Oil: deliveries to the airlines continued, but only as approved by the U.S. Embassy...
Standard refused to cancel its formal contract with Condor until the State Department threatened to invoke its black list. But Berle hinted that the company may have wanted the blacklist threat as a defense against a possible breach-of-contract suit. President Parish hailed this interpretation as plain truth...