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...Canal Zone. They arrived looking fit, ready and mean. An infantry battalion and the 33rd Airborne Regiment followed. In Britain, 3,000 miles away, four-engine R.A.F. Hastings transports were gassed up to fly the crack igth Infantry Brigade to Suez. The 8,000-ton cruiser Gambia hove into Port Said...
Meanwhile, Great Britain, whose inept handling of Iran's demands for greater oil royalties had made nationalization a popular issue, ordered the 8,000-ton cruiser Gambia to the port of Abadan. Gleefully, Moscow papers reported the news...
Another ambitious Socialist scheme flapped sadly home to roost last week: the government confessed that its taxpayer-financed poultry farm in Gambia, West Africa, was a failure...
...government had promised: "Within two years, British housewives will be getting 20 million eggs and 1,000,000 pounds of dressed poultry yearly from Gambia." The idea was that cheap native (nonunion) labor could grow feed for the chicks and harvest the eggs, but trouble hatched early. An American appointed to head the project got $14,000 to buy hatching eggs from Rhode Island Reds. Beaverbrook's Daily Express blew its patriotic top, offered to fly 1,000 day-old chicks or good British hatching eggs to Gambia. While waiting for the local feed supply to be produced...
...route will go from New York City (with Baltimore as alter nate) to San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Port of Spain, Trinidad, to Belem and Natal, Brazil. Then it will hop 1,800 miles - not quite the span from Newfoundland to Ireland - across the Atlantic to Monrovia, Liberia (Bathurst, Gambia and Freetown, Sierra Leone as alternates), will hug the hump of Africa as far as Nigeria, then cut across to Khartoum and perhaps eventually to Cairo. Across Africa, Pan Am planned direction finders, hangars, fields, communications and weather stations, resthouses. Priorities for the necessary materials are expected to be granted...