Word: sao
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...report named securities held for GÖring by "a German shipping firm in New York": $750,000 worth of bonds, mostly Pennsylvania R. R., Illinois Central, Cities Service, Bethlehem Steel. It gave him three ranches in South America; $1,225,000 in a bank at Sao Paulo, Brazil; $1,000,000 in Swedish kronor, Danish kroner, Dutch guilders and Belgian francs in Banco di Sicilia's branch at Trieste and A. B. Svenska Handelsbanken's branch at Malmö, Sweden. He was said to have safe deposits in Zürich, Chicago ($450,000) and at Sumitomo...
...Sao Paulo, Brazil, made inquiries in the U. S. for knitting machinery once bought in Europe...
...blowing a gale last week off Brazil's coast. Rain speared down in steel-grey phalanxes. Big, angry combers blew their tops. Battling pluckily through the maelstrom panted the little (248-ton, 36-meter) coastal steamer Itacare. She was out of Sao Salvador on her regular haul to Ilhéos, Bahia. She carried 47 passengers, a crew of 19, was heavily cargoed. Skilfully had young, but seasoned Captain Carlos Oliveira skippered her to within hailing distance of Ilhéos. Another 300 yards would find her in safe harbor...
...Brazil last week, wealthy Jews received extortion notes threatening physical violence, destruction of property unless they sent large "voluntary contributions" to Brazilian groups with allegedly Nazi affiliations. In Sao Paulo, police at once marched out to guard the premises of Jews who received threat-letters...
...again: it was discovered that the Lamp Post had just died of tuberculosis in the State of Sergipe. Last week Brazil was happier still. The Department of National Telegraphs was able to report the Lamp Post's third death: near the town of Villanova, 230 miles north of Sao Salvador, Bahia, the police of Alagoas State aided by a posse of civilians caught up with the bandit and in a desperate gun fight killed him, eleven confederates, his mistress...