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M. H. [[red underline]] Bletz [[/red underline]] of Sao Paolo Manager [[red underline]] Brazilian [[/red underline]] division of [[red underline]] American International Steel Corporation and Capt. Clark Howell Woodward. [[/red underline]] U.S. Navy A very pleasant supper well served and all these men made excellent impression as [[red underline]] representatives of younger America [[red underline]]
April 2. (Good Friday) a holiday. Here all day [[red underline]] Rosenshauch [[/red underline]] tells me how he [[strikethrough]] gets [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] purchases his diamonds [[/red underline]] around Diamantura in [[red underline]] Minas Gerais [[/red underline]] and brings them over in raw condition or gets them out right there where he has some diamond cutting establishment. Showed me some samples of raw diamonds in the "gangur" [[red underline]] look like greasy [[/red underline]]
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[[red underline]] quartz crystals [[/red underline]]
April 3. Went to visit the [[red underline]] School of fine Arts. [[/red underline]] building itself is more impressive than its collection. Went for lunch with [[red underline]] Phillipi [[/red underline]] and Betz and [[red underline]] a young Colonel of West Point to a little restaurant near water near end of [[?]] where we had fish and "green" portuguese wine. [[red underline]] Portugal [[/red underline]] importations [[red underline]] seem much liked [[/red underline]] here. Seems some relation between Portugal than ^[[there are]] between Spain and the other [[?]]
Then [[strikethrough]] went [[/striekthrough]] took car to Botanical Garden.. [[red underline]] Magnificent room of ^[[Royal]] Palms. also original Palin [[strikethrough]] from wh [[/strikethrough]] imported [[/red underline]] where as the other started as seedlings. Height 130 feet base nearly [[red underline]] 30"-36" Splendid bamboo groves and unusual abundance of varieties of

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Minas Gerais is a state in Brazil