Word: cameroons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many points of possible Franco-German friction were left hanging. Nothing whatever was said about German (or Axial) claims to French colonies (like Algeria), protectorates (like Tunis) or mandated territories (like Cameroon, formerly German). Nor was there any mention of the moribund but unrenounced treaty of mutual aid between France and Russia, always a sore point with Germany. However, three days later the Chamber of Deputies voted (315-to-241) confidence in Premier Daladier's foreign policies, of which the French-German "friendship"' declaration is a keystone. Strangely, it was from the Right, which for 15 years scorned...
Scientific expeditions to Ireland, Siam, the Cameroon, Venezuela, the Tibeto-Indian border, Ecuador, Arizona, and Florida, were sent out last year by the Peabody Museum, and progress of the field work was reported today by Donald Scott, Director of the Museum...
...pursuit of "ecological studies on the vanishing vertebrate fauna of the tropical rain forest remnant in East Africa, with a view to elucidating the origins of certain genera only known from the Uluguru and Usambara forests, and throwing light upon the dispersal of isolated, sylvicoline forms common to the Cameroon Mountains of the west and the Usambara Mountains of the East Coast." That is what Herpetologist Arthur Loveridge of Harvard University is going to do this year, and he will get something like $2,500 for doing it. Last week he and 37 other scholars and artists were awarded Guggenheim...
Lincoln, Neb. where Professor Jensen ponders the lightning, is a fair place for it. Better is Tampa, Fla. which holds the U. S. record with 94 thunderstorms a year. Best is Baliburg in Cameroon, Africa with 200 a year. San Jose, Calif, has the U. S. minimum with one a year. Most lightning goes from cloud to cloud. What goes from cloud to ground kills about 50 people per year...