Word: dakar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Experts from Chicago's Field Museum sailed from Manhattan on an expedition to jungly Senegal and Nigeria, where they will track down African mammals, collect rare birds to equip a new hall in the Museum. At Dakar in Senegal they will be joined by the expedition's sponsor, white-haired Sarah Lavanburg Straus, 74, widow of Oscar Solomon Straus, onetime Minister to Turkey, aunt of Ambassador to France Jesse Isidor Straus. No tyro at roughing it, robust Mrs. Straus equipped and led an expedition to Nyasaland and British East Africa in 1929, spent last winter poking about Mayan...
...span to Africa which no airplane had yet flown eastward. In moonlight darkened by occasional squalls Pilot Hinkler flew 22 hr., sat down at the little colony of Bathhurst, British Gambia, with an hour's fuel in his tanks. He refuelled, flew on to Dakar. Why he undertook the hazardous flight, why he made his surprise flight from New York to Jamaica a month ago, Pilot Hinkler did not state...
...Hoover order: a U. S. diplomat or consul who serves one year in any of 79 "pest holes'' gets credit for 18 months toward his retirement. World travelers were not surprised to find on the list such notoriously uncomfortable communities as Aden, Arabia; Canton, China; Baghdad, Iraq; Dakar, Senegal; Guayaquil, Ecuador; Leopoldville, Belgian Congo; Monrovia, Liberia and a host of Central American cities. What they found hard to understand, though, was the stamp of unhealthiness the Government had placed on such metropolitan centres as Hongkong, Nanking and Shanghai, on Havana and Saigon, on Bombay and Madras...
...Natal-Dakar. Although the South Atlantic has been flown many times from east to west, the eastward route has yet to yield passage to an airplane. Last week Jean Mermoz, pilot for Aeropostale, and two companions took off from Natal, Brazil, flew 16 hours, landed 350 mi. short of Dakar, Africa with a leaky oil line. Flyers and mail were picked up by the despatch boat Phocée, but the seaplane had to be abandoned. Mermoz recently flew the first westbound mail from Senegal to Natal, pioneering a prospective Aeropostale service (TIME...