Word: ababa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Haile Selassie wrote from Addis Ababa for a supply of Little Blue Books; Admiral Byrd took along a complete set to the South Pole; Franklin P. (Information Please) Adams is a steady customer. For kings and commoners, Haldeman-Julius has one inflexible rule: cash in advance. He grosses around $500,000 a year, but the profit on the average Blue Book is a bare two-tenths of 1?. Even so, Haldeman-Julius, though still a talking Socialist, can indulge a taste for champagne and crepes suzette, keep up a 160-acre farm...
There were only twelve jobs open, but when word got around Oklahoma last week, there were 250 applicants. The job: teaching school in Addis Ababa...
...Flagship Ethiopia, a Swedish-owned Bristol freight plane, refueled at Catania, in Sicily, and took off for Rome in a sirocco storm. Aboard were a crew of four and 21 passengers, all Swedish pilots and mechanics homebound after delivering in Addis Ababa 16 surplus Swedish light bombers for Emperor Haile Selassie's tiny but growing air force...
...floods received a letter. It expressed "solicitude for the unprecedented harshness of the weather in a countryside which we will always remember as your great and pleasant land." Enclosed was a check for ?1,000, signed by Haile Selassie, now once more secure on his throne in Addis Ababa (where the sun shines almost every day of the year...
Tyrone Power, hopping around Africa spreading good will for Hollywood, got nice accommodations in Addis Ababa. His host: Haile Selassie...