Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most early vacationers are rediscovering close-at-home possibilities. Seattle fishermen who went to vaunted hidden streams in the Grand Coulee country are finding good fish in nearby streams. Ohio and Mississippi river dwellers have returned to the old steamboat cruises. Many a resort would be a quiet place this year, would perhaps return to the more languid pre-gasoline pleasures of other times...
Manoel Olimpio Meira, called "Jacare" (Alligator) after his natal village, became the modern hero of Brazil's jangadeiros, half-starved "sharecropping" fishermen, last autumn when he and three mates sailed their flimsy jangada (sailing raft) Sao Pedro on a 61-day, 1,650-mile trip to Rio de Janeiro to tell President Vargas the fishermen's troubles. From Getulio Vargas they won full union rights-and pensions. Their story (TIME, Dec. 8) so kindled Cinema Director Orson Welles (Citizen Kane)that he flew Jacare and his mates to Rio again, to enact their feat for his camera...
...wreathed Grimsby on the North Sea, where British fishermen now don the greasy dungarees of the Royal Navy to go fishing for mine and submarine, Writer A. J. Liebling of The New Yorker found British character wondrously salted away in the diary of a patrol-boat captain. The captain was dead: he had "copped it in a fight with some motor torpedo boats. A one-pound shell took half of his head off." But he had left his immortally mortal diary behind...
Toward week's end his planes scouted the east coast of Australia, in which he had never seemed to be interested after years of exploration there by pearl fishermen and other characters in the service of the Jap Navy. At Townsville on the east coast, two Jap planes were picked up one day by U.S. anti-aircraftsmen. They were at 30,000 feet and they were away before pursuit could get up and after them. Australia looked harder at its own defenses on that side. If the Jap once got past the minefields between the mainland...
Japanese officers disguised as fishermen had plotted to seize São Paulo State. Brazilian forces would be attacked by 25,000 local, secretly trained Japanese troops using anti-tank guns and artillery imported as agricultural machinery. On farms and in fishing villages, air and submarine bases were ready for a supporting invasion. Among the Jap dentists in Brazil was a General. Among the tomato growers was a onetime Jap Finance Minister...