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[[vertical annotation in red in left margin]] Brazil - Sao Paulo [[/left margin]]
Lumber Co., then Lidger wood - all [[red underline]] show Americans have been around here and that Sao Paulo is becoming a manufacturing district. [[/red underline]] At station an open automobile drove me at break neck speed, roaring muffler wide open thru a series of clean kept streets to the [[red underline]] Hotel Rotisserie Sportsman the most important in town.  Everything full [[/red underline]] but later on got a room. In mean time was allowed to use bathroom. Bath tub hidden by two potted palms. [[red underline]] What a delight to feel clean after a week's trip in dirty trains! [[/red underline]]. Went to bank got [[red underline]] 370.000 [[/red underline]] Reis for [[strikethrough]] my [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] $100. [[/red underline]]  Am told would get more if I presented gold for
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exchange.  [[red underline]] S. Paulo [[/red underline]] is a very active [[red underline]] well kept city splendid buildings. [[/red underline]] all well planned and distributed in excellent taste. [[red underline]] We do not have a single city in the U.S. of which the ensemble ^[[ensemble]] is as good as this. [[/red underline]] No bare unfinished helter skelter patches. A viaduct well planned over the lower valley changed in Park -like fashion After lunch engaged a guide to show me around and hired a motor car. which was an Essex 1920.  Many other [[red underline]] American makes.[[/red underline]] also French. Italian and Swiss makes but the latter all date before the war.
As in all other cities [[red underline]] a good system of electric tramways. Streets and roads well kept. [[/red underline]] Some streets