Word: egypt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Emperor of Japan, the Shah of Persia and the kings of Afghanistan, Egypt, Sweden and Spain all own Rolls-Royces, as do most prominent Indian Maharajas. After trying out a fleet of Packards on the awful roads and cobblestoned streets of Jugoslavia, King Alexander has just ordered two more. Tsar Boris of Bulgaria drives a German Mercedes...
...civilization already ancient 5,500 years ago. Pharaohs mined copper in the Sinai Peninsula as early as 3400 B. C. Dr. Barton suavely pointed out that the Sumerians in Babylonia made gold and silver objects as early as 3500 B. C. and more beautiful than anything produced in Egypt until hundreds of years later. Those early Sumerians knew agricultural arts and had a fairly complex social system...
...ancient, shady ancestry is the Devil. As Egypt's Serpent Apap, he crawled at dark by the Nile while flames shuddered in his thin trail. In Babylonia, even fools dared not prate of him when he was known as "the lady Nina." His was the god-defiance of Prometheus, the malice of Ahriman. Still as Siva he destroys...
Trans-Hemisphere Transport. For two years European nations have been sending flyers to scout airways across Africa, across Asia. Last week England utilized its amassed information. Its Imperial Airways started weekly commercial service from Croydon Airport, near London, to Karachi, India, by way of Alexandria, Egypt. First passenger was Sir Samuel Hoare, British Air Minister, one of the few bureaucrats who actually fly.* He quit the India journey at Alexandria, to inspect the Egyptian section of the proposed Alexandria-Cape Town British trunk airway...
...Last week Ahmed Fuad Pasha, G. C. B., King Fuad I of Egypt, celebrated his 61st birthday. President Hoover cabled him: "Please accept my congratulations . . . and the assurances of my high regard and best wishes...