Word: african
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Berlin to Rio. Excited Spanish soldiers bungled the refueling at Seville. Instead of the expected northeast trades off the African coast, came head and beam winds. Torrential downpours near the Equator bore down like tons of added ballast. But the Graf Zeppelin plowed steadily along her new trade route to Brazil, landed at Pernambuco after 62 hours. The time from Friedrichshafen to Rio de Janeiro was six and a half days. Besides being her sixth Atlantic crossing the flight was a two-point triumph for the Graf: 1) proving the dirigible equal to tropical weather; 2) making Latin-America...
STAMPEDE?Native African actors...
...STAMPEDE?African race with death staged with native actors and props (TIME...
POOR NIGGER-Orio Vergani-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). George Boykin, true to the best African tradition, was conceived, born and bred in total darkness. Bandied by harlots, sailors, soldiers, he saw much of life, understood little. While employed as a pimp in a Senegalese seaport, he first met Madame Germaine, relict of a French engineer; later went to her house after he had been shot in the shoulder in a cafe brawl. Madame Germaine, philanthropic, took him to France with her; lost him as soon as the boat landed. He worked as bootblack, ice-boy, thief, until he met Tommy Walsh...
...planet. X, said Dr. Brown, is too small to exert such a pressure. Siding with Dr. Brown in the doubting column are: Dr. William Duncan MacMillan of University of Chicago, who maintains that X's path is hyperbolic, not elliptical; Professor H. E. Wood, astronomer for the South African Union, who gives X a size 1/30th that of Earth; Fernand Baldet, associate astronomer at the government observatory at Meudon, France; Professor Harold Lee Alden of Yale's South African Station, who sides with Dr. Brown, claims X is too small to influence Uranus; Dr. Frank Schlesinger, Director...