Word: african
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Abyssinian delegate had to consult his government, but representatives of Great Britain, Belgium, Egypt, Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, the Union of South Africa and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan confidently endorsed the African conservation treaty drawn up last month at their London conference. Last week the conference's U. S. observer, Chairman John Charles Phillips of the American Committee for International Wild Life Protection, forwarded the treaty to the U. S. State Department for its information. U. S. big-game hunters, trophy dealers and cinematographers scrambled among themselves for copies of the text...
Chief enemy of African game, decided the conference, is the professional trophy hunter. Traffic in trophies, which may be anything from a stuffed aard wolf to a zebra's skull, will be strictly supervised. Hunters must prove that their trophies have been legally obtained. Ivory and rhinoceros horns conveniently "found" on dead animals will belong to the government...
...telescope, which cost $200,000, is one inch larger than that at Bloemfontein, South Africa, where Harvard has an observing station to cover the southern sky. This African telescope will be used to check results with the Oak Ridge station, also, as their fields overlap...
Five months ago two French aviators named Gate and Constant-Bree, flying around the west African coast, vanished in a storm over Portuguese Guinea. After several weeks without word of the men, Pilot Gate's wife went in search of them, insisted on accompanying a detail of Portuguese soldiers into the wilderness of the Cacheo River. Last week the Senegal correspondent of the Paris Petit Journal reported that Mme Gate & party had returned to the coast, not with her husband but with horrid information gleaned from natives. Pilots Gate & Constant-Bree had crashed in the river region. There black...
Meanwhile last week a squadron of French army biplanes roared across the Sahara on a null tour of French African territory which began fortnight ago, will last for another month. Possibly inspired by Italy's formidable demonstration in the Balbo flight, France's air cruise was ordered by bespectacled Air Minister Pierre Cot. The full complement contained 30 planes which started from Istres Airdrome in southern France. One cracked up in Spain, another in Morocco. At desolate Bidon V (Gastank No. 5) three more planes had to hang back with engine trouble, caught up again in Upper Senegal...