Word: departamento
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When fire broke out on two more nitrate-carrying steamers last week, two tenuous theories went up in smoke. Neither Japs nor Reds could be blamed for the plague of nitrate-ship fires (TIME, April 2) after Chile's cocky counter-espionage Departamento 50 nabbed the chief saboteur, a German named Julio Alberto von Appen Oestmann (alias Apfel), and turned him over for shipment...
...Departamento 50 also revealed a dream of the chief saboteur that never came off: to destroy the Panama Canal by exploding a Chilean ship in one of the locks...
Brazil's Departamento de Imprensa e Propaganda (D.I.P.), having allotted a part of the hour to a U.S. program beginning next Monday, accepted the Rockefeller Committee's invitation to send advisers and writers to make the program hum in good Portuguese. Head of the delegation is Dr. Assis de Figueiredo, D.I.P.'s assistant director, who will stay in the U.S. a few weeks. With him were the head of D.I.P.'s radio division, Dr. Julio Barata, and three writers, Raymundo Magalhães, Origines Lessa and Pompeu de Souza, all of whom brought their families...