Word: coast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shattered hulk of Flagship New York settling crazily into 20 ft. of water a mile short of the runway's green threshold lights. The tug cut loose two barges it was towing, churned towards the twisted wreckage, flashed a call for help to the Coast Guard. Nickerson gave the eight-man crew one order: "Forget the bodies. Haul in the live ones...
...until the Europeans came, the continent that could not write, it had known its times of glory. Guinea was once part of the powerful Mali Empire that stretched from the French Sudan, on the upper reaches of the Niger, to just short of West Africa's Atlantic Coast. When its 14th century ruler, the Mansa (Sultan) Musa, made his pilgrimage to Mecca, he traveled with a caravan of 60,000 men, and among his camels were 80 that each bore 300 Ibs. of gold. He built his wife a swimming pool in the desert, and filled it with water...
...functionaries would be withdrawn within two months. Toure's brash reply: Remove them in eight days. While French shopkeepers and businessmen stayed on, 350 officials and their families began moving out. French justice stopped. A ship heading for Guinea with a carload of rice went to the Ivory Coast instead. Radio Conakry temporarily went off the air. The Guineans charged that the departing French were taking everything-medical supplies, official records, air conditioners, even electric wiring...
...generations French West Africans have feared the Senegalese, who were among the first to join the French in subduing them. The Senegalese in turn fear the lean, desert-dwelling Moors, who are fighting men with a long tradition of trading in slaves. In Houphouet-Boigny's Ivory Coast there have been recent race riots against African immigrants from Togoland and Dahomey...
...Depression, Frye merged Standard into Western Air Express, which later merged with Transcontinental Air Transport to, become Transcontinental & Western Air, a pioneering coast-to-coast airline. (T.W.A. billed itself as "The Lindbergh Line," kept Charles Lindbergh on the payroll as an adviser, but dropped the title in 1938 when Lindbergh made isolationist speeches for America First...