Heading "South to the Sun," the Moore-McCormack ships will stop 

 first at Bahia, and then go on to incomparable Rio de Janeiro, the glitter- 

 ing capital of Brazil. Next conies Santos, the leading coffee port of the 

 world, where the endless stream of bulging coffee bags is loaded onto 

 ships for consumption all over the United States. A stop is also made at 

 Santos on the northbound trip so that passengers may travel inland to 

 Sao Paulo, the "Chicago of South America," third largest city in South 

 America. 



Montevideo, Uruguay, is the next city visited on the southbound trip. 

 The "City of Roses," as Montevideo is called, is one of the most beautiful 

 in Latin America. Last on the voyage south is Buenos Aires, capital of 

 Argentina, and the most cosmopolitan city in South America. Often re- 

 ferred to as the "Paris of South America," Buenos Aires is Latin Amer- 

 ica's largest city, and is famed for its wealth, commerce and brilliant so- 

 cial life. Northbound, the ships will follow a similar route, but will omit 

 Bahia, and stop at Trinidad. 



During the war, from Pearl Harbor to V-J Day, Moore-McCormack 

 Lines operated more than 150 ships (of which eleven were lost), trans- 

 ported 754,239 troops, and carried 34,410,111 tons of war cargo. The 

 three "Good Neighbor" ships alone carried more than 450,000 troops, 

 and saw action in the Pacific, the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, where 

 they took part in the invasion of North Africa. They made their last 

 peacetime trips to South America late in 1941 and were then turned over 

 to the government and speedily converted to accommodate as many as 

 8,000 troops each. 



