Word: casablanca
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More than 7,000 miles lie between Paris and Buenos Aires, a rail and boat journey of three weeks, but letters will soon pass from one to the other in ten days. Planes will carry mail from Paris to Toulouse, to Alicante, Tangier, Casablanca, and Dakar on Cape Verde off the coast of Africa. A special boat will carry the mail to the most northeasterly point of Brazil. And there planes will again take up the burden, resuming service to the Argentine, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay. Charge for one letter: circa...
...ports of call: Paris, Bordeaux, Biarritz, Perpignan, Barcelona, Alicante, Malaga, Seville, Tangier, Casablanca, Marrakesh, Fez, Oran, Algiers, Biskra, Tunis, Catania, Naples, Rome, Venice, Pisa, Marseille, Lyons...
...anxious as mothers whose children are at large in the neighbors fields, playing "sardines" or "Indians." Last week it was Spain's turn to look for missing flyers, Uruguay's to worry. Major Tadeo Larre-Borges and three comrades, the flower of Uruguay's few aviators, had left Casablanca, Spanish Morocco, for Cape Juby, 600 miles further down the West coast of Northern Africa, in a seaplane which they sought to fly across the Atlantic. But they had not turned up at Cape Juby. The Spanish government ordered a search...
General Naulin and the staff of the French High Command will winter at Rabat, on the Atlantic coastline, a few miles north of Casablanca. There they will be well out of the muck and unpleasantness, but at the same time on the direct railroad to Fez and the embroiled uplands. General Boichut, commanding the extreme southern end of the French line, will likewise be exceedingly comfortable at Algiers on the Mediterranean. Meanwhile General Marty will be marooned high and wet at Taza; and Generals Pruneau, Hergault and Billotte will occupy a series of sloshy, uncomfortable positions to the west...
...such outranks Marshal Lyautey, the French Resident General in Morocco, who will continue to be the supreme French civil authority in the Protectorate. "My duty," said Marshal Petain, "is to coordinate the reinforcements which are being sent to Morocco continuously. Those going from France will land at the Casablanca and those from Algeria will proceed directly to Taza. The question is to "use them actively in the area...