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...long been the Cinderella colony. What little Portuguese and private funds were available went to develop Mozambique, on the other side of Africa. Discovered in 1482, Angola came into prominence in the 19th Century when colonists built up a lucrative slave trade, exporting Angola's Bantu blacks to Brazil. When slavery was abolished in Brazil in 1830, colonists gradually turned to agriculture, began to produce coffee, sugar, maize, palm oil, sisal. Meanwhile, at home, Portugal was in a mess. With two exceptions, budgets were unbalanced for three-quarters of a century and between 1910 and 1926 the nation went...
Such are the facts of the Lamp Post's well known obituary. Four years ago, after troops had chased him fruitlessly for many months, he was shot not in battle but in a brawl, died of his wounds. Brazil rejoiced when the news was announced. Last January Brazil rejoiced 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...
...vast love of travel, was pleased to reveal that he had agreed to discount notes of the Haitian Government for $5,000,000 worth of public works to be handled by J. G. White Engineering Corp., that he was discussing a substantial order of railroad equipment for Brazil, that the door was open to South American nations in general...
Last week the German Government showed its growing irritation at all this by flaring out sharply in a safe direction, against Brazil. Most of the Latin American states have long been as vexed as Rumania at the sharp German practice of buying huge quantities of raw materials on credit or with blocked marks, then selling these goods for cash at dumping prices, often in direct competition with the producing countries. On June 30, the Brazilian Government ordered the Bank of Brazil to cease buying blocked or aski marks, thus forcing Germany to pay in genuine currency for any Brazilian goods...
...expected to sell for its exclusive coverage from 30 to 75 minutes of air time on its Red and Blue networks, had mustered 146 stations from Boston to Honolulu, had a beam open for Portuguese short waving to Brazil, another for Spanish reporting to other South and Central American listeners, a third to carry the German account to Challenger Schmeling's homeland. It was to be the biggest sport broadcast ever...