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Manufacturers may still sell military planes to foreign powers, but few first-class customers will take two-year-old models. U.S. military plane exports in the last six months: Argentina, $285,000; China, $948,012; Mexico, $299,904; Russia; $117,676; Brazil, $9,600; Holland $1,162,600; Japan, $63,000; Ecuador, $125,550; Honduras...
Wider was the scope of LIFE'S pictorial presentation of Brazil, in the news now because Franklin Roosevelt is going there. Of South America the editors said, "A month ago LIFE decided to do its duty and be interested-a duty which turned out to be surprisingly easy to take. . . . Next week, The Argentine...
...freighter West Mahwah of the Pacific Argentine Brazil Line has lately been held in San Juan, P. R., by a crew strike (TIME, Nov. 9). One night last week it finally cleared the harbor. Few days later, into the office of U. S. District Attorney A. Cecil Snyder marched four ragged youths, three of them Puerto Ricans, the fourth a 16-year-old from Washington, D. C. named Rothwell Burke. Filing complaints against the West Mahwah, young Burke and two of his companions signed affidavits to the following story...
Queried at the home office in San Francisco, the Pacific Argentine Brazil Line declared that Capt. Hansen had radioed that the whole affair was a hoax. Snorted the Line: "The incident has been grossly exaggerated...
...Hindenburg and thereupon with papal permission celebrated the world's first aerial Mass (TIME. May 18), MIVA had acquired a dozen planes, more than 150 automobiles and motorboats which now ply among mission stations in Albania, Lettland, East, West and South Africa, Madagascar, Korea, New Guinea, Brazil and the Solomon Islands. Last week Father Schulte was in Manhattan, full of plans for adding northern Canada to MIVA's territory. During the summer, accompanied by Toronto Pilot Pat Howard, he flew an all-metal Junkers named Santa Maria to the mouth of the Mackenzie River, presented it to Most...