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National City Bank of New York Saó Paulo, Brazil...
With its twin motors ticking over rhythmically, a big Heinkel transport moved into position on Rio de Janeiro's Santos Dumont airfield one day last week, began loading up for its regular Sāo Paulo run. Up the steps walked the passengers: Cuban Minister to Brazil Alfonso Hernández Catá, Rockefeller Foundation's yellow-fever researcher Dr. Evandro Chagas, Norwegian Consul Alexander Stabell Grieg, Sebastiāo Leme Salles, nephew of Rio's Cardinal Archbishop, eleven lesser wigs. Heading into the wind, the VASP airliner roared across the field, lifted easily into a climbing...
Last fortnight Brazilians were treated to a report by their Department of Education as lurid as a story by E. Phillips Oppenheim. Prowling in a Japanese house in Sao Paulo, said the report, educational inspectors discovered a cunningly concealed trap door in the floor. They called police who found a school in session in the cellar, complete with Japanese teachers, Japanese books, Japanese flags, pictures of the Emperor. They also discovered a set of chemistry books explaining how to make bombs, another set on airplane-making. By last month, the Department Announced, police had ferreted out and closed 78 underground...
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...
Five days were spent in the largest industrial city in South America, Sao Paulo. The group travelled from Rio in a special car supplied by the Brazilian government. Besides the customary visits to the important factories and conferences with business men and politics, the stay in Sao Paulo was marked by a basketball game with a local college--final score 15-3 with Harvard on the wrong...