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...from their government to start a jute industry. Jute proved a failure, so the settlers switched to rice. When rice did not pay off, they planted pepper, clearing large areas of the jungle. Suspicious minds thought they might be preparing airfields for an attack on the Panama Canal. The outbreak of World War II found some 20,000 Japanese scattered over some 2,700 square miles of the Amazon basin. In the course of the first roundups of alien enemies, thousands were taken to internment camps, but many more remained at large...
...organized in 1936 as the Anti-Communist Center by Nazi Agent Oscar Hellmuth Schreiter, and from the outset trained semi-militarized shock troops under Spanish Falangists; >Maintained direct contact with the Fichte Bund in Hamburg until the outbreak...
Three days of training at an anti-aircraft station over Christmas vacation provided 19 Naval Sci Seniors with a war-time substitute for the three-week Caribbean cruise on which NROTC men got their practical experience before the outbreak of hostilities...
...event, which has been held yearly since the outbreak of the war, brings together many prominent Dutch-Americans to discuss the development of Dutch culture in this country...
...From 1933 to war's outbreak, the number of joint stock companies (a kind of partnership) in Germany dropped from 9,100 to 5,300, while their average capital doubled to four million Reichsmarks. Limited companies were reduced from...