Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that time, too, we were printing various editions of TIME for our own forces overseas in Teheran, Cairo and, eventually, Rome and Paris. After V-J day, when TIME Inc. decided to continue its world-wide publishing operation that had been built up from wartime necessity, we consolidated all of these far-flung printing operations in Paris in the Atlantic edition, so that Europeans could read their copies of TIME while U.S. citizens were reading the same issue. The film developed during the war, now flown from the U.S. to Paris, makes this fast printing schedule possible...
Correspondents knew what to expect when, on the day before the signing, Greek porters unloaded cartons and crates of Arabic goodies, obviously for a celebration, from a DC-3 that had flown in from Cairo. Historic Beersheba, crossroads of the Negeb desert, had been the last stumbling block. By dint of arms, the Jews had Beersheba, and they believed it indispensable as a base for their desert reclamation projects. Before Seif edDin would give it up formally, he had to fly to Cairo for his government's consent. If he got consent, he told the correspondents, he would bring...
...Rhodes, amid beaming good will, the delicacies from Cairo were consumed-jellied turkey, mixed vegetables, meat balls, chocolates, assorted liquors. The negotiators parted with smiles and handshakes. Doughty Dr. Bunche took ship for the Holy Land, to see with his own eyes how the armistice worked...
From Egypt last week came word that in the fullness of her 90 years, she had died in a Cairo...
Died. Mahmoud Fahmy El Nokrashy Pasha, 60, Premier of Egypt; by an assassin's bullet; in Cairo (see FOREIGN NEWS...