Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prison until war's end, Nazi Arnold appealed the extradition order Uruguay had granted, gained a 20-day reprieve. Last week, with a new passport obligingly issued by the German Legation in Montevideo, he thwarted Argentina again. Uruguayan police relented, granted him permission to sail for Rio de Janeiro, where he could catch a LATI plane for Italy. Steaming north aboard the Japanese Hawaii Maru, he had one more hurdle ahead: Brazil had not authorized his landing at Rio, so he would be forced to remain aboard ship until his plane left...
...push-Formosa, which Japan won from China in 1895, and Hainan, which she grabbed early last year. But before these bases could become really effective, the Japanese would have to erase the British outpost of Hong Kong. This harbor, which has the unmatchable beauty of an intimate Rio de Janeiro, was to be the base of Britain's preliminary delaying action. Now, it is almost completely surrounded by Japanese land and naval positions. The British last summer revised their plans to resist there. Most of their revised plans at Hong Kong called for resistance only to inflict as much...
...stay at Rio de Janeiro included conferences with leaders in the industrial and political life of Brazil and visits to industrial plants and educational institutions. The group spent several days talking to Ambassador Caffrey and his staff and to members of the American Chamber of Commerce in Rio...
...program in Rio was rounded out by a number of social functions arranged by Americans and Brazilians at which the members of the group could discuss various problems of interest with leaders in all fields of Brazilian life...
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...