Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Uruguayan Government this week completed plans for the biggest naval air base south of the Panama Canal. To be built on Laguna Negra, a lake close to the Atlantic Coast, 160 miles northeast of Montevideo, it will command the broad mouth of the Rio de la Plata, a wide sweep of the South Atlantic. It will be constructed with U.S. funds lent and given to Uruguay for national defense. Like other Uruguayan ports, Laguna Negra Base will be open to U.S.. forces in case of war with the Axis...
...separation in the offing. ∙ ∙Bing Crosby practiced a week for a try at Rigoletto with the San Francisco Opera, decided it wasn't his field. ∙ ∙ Sonja Henie was finally sworn in as a U.S. citizen. ∙ ∙ Reporting that she had been booed in Rio, on the street, at the opera door and on the stage as Tosca, Grace Moore said the booers were a Nazi-Fascist claque led by an Italian opera star whom she declined to name. ∙ ∙ 20th Century-Fox hired Salvador Dali to stage a special scene-a nightmare sequence...
Captain Wiedemann suddenly turned up in Rio de Janeiro last week by plane from Europe (TIME, Sept. 15). To reporters he said expansively that he had a "special mission" in South America that would take him to Argentina and Chile. On hearing this, Deputy Damonte sent police to the Buenos Aires airport, announced that he would question Wiedemann closely the moment he arrived...
...could see harmony reigned in Brazil, and between Brazil and all nations. Side by side in front of the new War Ministry in Rio de Janeiro stood President Getulio Dornellas Vargas and his Minister of War, General Eurico Dutra. Their bland faces gave no hint of the tension existing within the Vargas Government - a tension which only recently caused a grave but laughable Cabinet crisis. According to the story that leaked out, Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha and other pro-U.S. ministers had planned an elaborate coup to get rid of Axis-sympathizing General Dutra...
...that Argentina and Brazil are somewhat jealous of each other's influence in Paraguay. With a harmonious rattle, U.S. -made light tanks and German-made anti-aircraft guns rolled down the Praça da Republica. Even U.S.-ousted Nazi Consul General Fritz Wiedemann, who turned up in Rio for the birthday party, purred that he was on a "special mission...