Word: aden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Aden (entrance to the Red Sea). St. Gandhi and party went ashore for a few hours, were wildly cheered by local Indian merchants who presented him with an offering of $1,625. Blinking through his glasses. St. Gandhi replied both in Gujarati and English that he expected much more...
...unhealthy places. Effect of the Hoover order: a U. S. diplomat or consul who serves one year in any of 79 "pest holes'' gets credit for 18 months toward his retirement. World travelers were not surprised to find on the list such notoriously uncomfortable communities as Aden, Arabia; Canton, China; Baghdad, Iraq; Dakar, Senegal; Guayaquil, Ecuador; Leopoldville, Belgian Congo; Monrovia, Liberia and a host of Central American cities. What they found hard to understand, though, was the stamp of unhealthiness the Government had placed on such metropolitan centres as Hongkong, Nanking and Shanghai, on Havana and Saigon...
Landing at Jibuti on the Gulf of Aden, Ambassador & Mrs. Jacoby and their suite entered a private train for the 780-mi. journey to New Flower, the tin-roofed capital of the King of Kings. New Flower, or Addis Ababa, is hidden among mighty mountains at an altitude of more than 6,000 ft. To this barbaric stronghold the Jacobys carried officially an autographed photograph of President Hoover, described as "handsomely framed." Unofficial, privately-paid-for U. S. Coronation gifts include...
...noncompetitive. In the U. S., Vacuum concentrates on lubricating oil (Gargoyle, Mobil oil), Standard of New York on gasoline (Socony) Abroad, Vacuum markets gasoline and kerosene in Egypt, parts of Europe, Africa, and Australasia, while noncompetitive Standard of New York does the same thing in the Near East, India, Aden, and the Orient...