Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the committee and some high ranking military men, he left for Europe once more last August 31. He had planned to be back in Cambridge for the fall term opening. "But our travel schedule broke down on Russian plane service almost as badly as our digestion did on Cairo water," said Elliott, by way of explaining his late arrival two weeks ago on the Queen Elizabeth...
Abraham Lincoln broke into print, on Page One of Cairo's Al Mokattam, where he was quoted in the Arab fight against Jewish colonization of Palestine. United Press translation: "A country belongs to those who live in it." The Lincoln line: "This country with its institutions belongs to the people who inhabit...
...Flannels & Black Type. They labored mightily to make magic out of what had become commonplace: the Azores one day, Cairo the next. By the time she reached San Francisco, Inez Robb was air-dizzy from high-flown metaphors. Wrote she: "The world is shrinking like a pair of red flannels in a spring rain." The travelers got back to Washington in six days, six hours, having taken twice as long as globe-girdling Howard Hughes did in 1938, because they went a much longer...
Next week the Army will blaze another trail. The Air Transport Command will start a weekly round-the-world air service from Washington, D.C., via the Azores, Cairo, India, China, Guam, Honolulu and San Francisco. The globe-girdling will be done in Douglas 40-passenger C-54s, will take 151 hours. Fare for civilian passengers (who must have military certificates of necessity...
Even before Hodge arrived they had been in a ferment. U.S. planes had dropped leaflets with Korean translations of the Cairo declaration promising Korea independence "in due course." The Korean translation of "in due course" meant "in a few days...