Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today, Transradio news goes by teletype and radiotelegraph to 288 radio stations. It boasts an impressive list of beats, such as the Italian invasion of Ethiopia. In 1936, it began serving newspapers, today sells to 46, including the London Daily Telegraph, the Portland Oregonian, the Honolulu Advertiser and the Johannesburg (South Africa) Daily Express. Its 20-hour-a-day teletype circuit distributes 40,000 words of spot news. An editorial staff of 40 works in its main office in a Manhattan penthouse. Its 34 U. S. and foreign bureaus are operated by 132 editorial workers...
...speculation in foreign exchange, in all three of which he suspects Jews of being active; 4) his fear that a Jewish national home in Palestine (see p. 18) would make the Mediterranean less Roman. He would like to solve the Zionist question by transferring the Zionists from Palestine to Ethiopia. Then the Arabs in Palestine would be let alone and international capital would be brought in to develop the Empire...
...major difference. In Waugh in Abyssinia he described how he lived for some time with a mysterious Mr. Rickett. Rickett, hinting that he had important news to disclose, was so vague that Waugh, not interested, missed the best news story of the war: when Rickett got Ethiopia's oil and mineral rights from Haile Selassie. In Scoop, poor blundering William Boot is far more fortunate. He falls in love with a German girl, stays in the capital when rival correspondents are sent out to a non-existent front, scoops the world when Communists pull a coup d'etat...
...will fix the white intruders and take care of her own in the long run. The cotton of Lake Tana has too short a fibre; the coffee of Harar costs more than Brazil; and it seems that King Tut and his gang sifted every grain of gold out of Ethiopia...
...Fight for Peace (Warwick) is a bitter, angry omnibus of war, given point & purpose by a tart narrative from the pen of author Hendrik Willem Van Loon. These patched-fogether newsreel shots show actual scenes from modern war: liquid fire spraying Ethiopia; China's cities, roadsides and streams piled with stinking dead; anguished Spanish mothers digging their mangled children from smoking ruins, as big, black bombers wheel off overhead...