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...Kostelanetz verified the activity of totalitarian shortwavers, but pricked the balloon of their importance by reporting that short-wave listening in South America, even more than in the U. S., is an exacting hobby, available to relatively few people, of interest to even fewer. Said he: "In all of Brazil [pop. 47,795,000] there are only 420,000 radio sets, only 15% of them equipped for shortwave. Some 40% of the Brazilians are illiterate and illiterates are not likely to be skilled short-wave dialers...
...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...
...sizable investments in almost every hotspot in the world: Spain, China, Brazil, Mexico, Cuba, Germany, Rumania, Japan, Poland. In Shanghai the war cost it 10,525 of its 50,000 phones, but most have since been regained. In Spain, where I. T. & T. has an investment of $67,000,000, about one-fifth its total, the system is still in good order because both Rightists and Leftists need it, but whether I. T. & T. will ever again get the $3,000,000 annual profit it used to make is no more certain than the war's outcome...
...slaying Brazil's famed, long-hunted bandit, Lampeão, "the Lamp Post" (TIME, Aug. 8), the police of Alagoas State last week received: 1) $5,000; 2) six freshly hacked human heads...
...into regular service. Every week since 1934 Deutsche Lufthansa has been flying mail in fast Heinkel He. 705 from Berlin to Bathurst on the bulging coast of Africa, thence in Dornier DO-18s across the narrow South Atlantic to where South America bulges out to meet them at Natal, Brazil. Lufthansa one day will carry passengers on this route; until last year, when the Hindenburg burned up at Lakehurst, N. J., passengers could make the crossing any fortnight by Zeppelin...