Word: condors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five months ago Brazil's sharp-eyed little President Getulio Dornelles Vargas started clipping the wings of the German Condor airline. First snip came in June when he refused a petition of the Rio-São Paulo branch to keep two of its Nazi pilots on the payroll. Last month he cut a little closer, canceled a contract for service be tween Belem (formerly Pará), at the mouth of the Amazon, and the French Guiana frontier. Three weeks ago he brought out his shears again, ousted all foreign pilots, whether naturalized or not, from Brazilian airlines...
Marshal Sperrle is the Prussian type-massive, heavy-featured, monocled. He flew in World War I, was shot down and severely wounded. He led the Condor Legion in the Spanish Civil War, where hundreds of Germany's best pilots received their battle training in relays...
Germans in Brazil own textile factories, dye works, paint & chemical plants, machine and tractor factories. They run retail establishments, hotels and restaurants up & down the country. The German-owned airline, Syndicato Condor, operates down the Brazilian coast to Buenos Aires, across the Andes to Santiago. It also runs a profitless branch line to Xapury, 2,000 miles up into the Amazonian wilderness. Germany tried to underwrite a huge Brazilian steel industry, but was outmaneuvered by Washington, which last week was waiting for approval from Rio of a $17,000,000 Export-Import Bank loan...