Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Middle East, the Far East, and, to some extent, Latin America, that postwar air travel has become indispensable to TIME'S news operations. Our Cairo bureau, for instance, figures that it has a million square miles of territory to operate in. Its correspondents can cover Palestine, Lebanon and Syria by automobile; the rest is swiftly accessible only by plane. But when proof was needed of the Russian evacuation of the Iranian province of Azerbaijan, a bureau correspondent hopped into a plane flown by the American Embassy's air attache, an ex-fighter pilot, in order...
...appreciation of services rendered to our cause at the Security Council," read the front-page advertisement in Cairo's Al Assas (The Foundation), "our premises present, for ten days only, at less than cost price, Paris El Khoury silk at $2.41 per meter and Gromyko satin at $1.99 per meter...
...Cairo housewives hurried to Hanafi Farag's dry-goods store in Cairo's crowded bazaar, the Mûski. El Khoury silk, marked down from $2.90, turned out to be mostly large, splashy flower designs in reds, greens and blues, and was of Egyptian manufacture. It went fast, for dresses. Gromyko satin, marked down from $2.41, came in solid pastels. Somewhat unfortunately (for political verisimilitude), Gromyko satin had been made in Franco Spain. But it was selling well, too, chiefly for nighties, housecoats, slips and panties...
...Cairo, members of the devoutly anti-foreign Moslem Brotherhood heard a rumor that U.N.'s Security Council might reject Egypt's demand that British troops clear out of the Nile Valley. Five thousand Caireńes thereupon marched through the streets chanting: ". . . Egypt defies the Security Council! Egypt defies the whole world...
...India, where Baker spent three months and traveled 15,000 miles by air, dockside strikes and irregular mail delivery from TIME's branch printing plant in Cairo had accumulated quantities of unsold newsstand copies of TIME. They were stacked in a warehouse in the Moslem section of Calcutta and TLI's distributor, a Hindu like most Indian businessmen, did not dare try to recover them. Baker located a bearer who was a Christian and helped load the back copies of TIME into a truck himself. Later, the bearer, "a likeable, inoffensive little chap," was kidnapped by a band...