Word: casablanca
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mermoz, surveyor of the Casablanca-Dakar line across the Sahara, the South American line between Buenos Aires and Santiago; veteran of a dozen smashups; who, before he was lost in the South Atlantic, confessed to Saint Exupéry: "It's worth it, it's worth the final smashup...
...deck, talking to fellow passengers. The voyage which he began at Smyrna in mid-April was such a trip except that he traveled on a smaller, slower ship, in titular custody of a young Third Secretary of Embassy and watched over by traveling correspondents. While the ship was at Casablanca he suffered a brief heart attack, but otherwise his health was good for a man of 74. He talked readily enough with fellow passengers, groused a bit at being photographed, read a good deal, was delighted to get back copies of the Saturday Evening Post in Sicily. Apparently he worried...
...property," he snorted. "You have no right to photograph it. I will not consent to it." Between Samuel Insull and his fate lay 28 days and 28 nights at sea, while the Exilona visits Catania (where Mrs. Insull may join her husband), Algiers and Casablanca to pick up cargo. When he reaches the U. S. Samuel Insull will: 1) be arrested-the ship docks first at Boston where Sam Insull Jr. may meet him; 2) be carried off to Chicago; 3) probably be released on bail; 4) face trial on Federal charges of bankruptcy act violations and using the mails...
Aboard S. S. Exilona, April 19--Samuel Insull sailed for Casablanca, Morocco, at 8.40 P. M. tonight aboard this American freighter, carrying him back to America for trial on charges of fraud...
...Yesterday the mail runner came up with a copy of TIME for me among other things. It came to Bel-Abbes, then to Fez and on to Ourd Zem (south of Casablanca) by train. From there to Beni Mallah by truck. A native escort brought it over the first of the hills on mules to district base. There a rider of the 'pony express' carried it to battalion base. A company convoy of mules and outriders carried it to company headquarters and it was forwarded here by the above mentioned manner. The poor thing must be quite shaken...