Word: jidda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wealthy Mussulmen loath to subject themselves to such a hot, dusty, brigand-infested journey had for the first time a better means of travel. From Cairo, Misr Airwork of Egypt inaugurated a special service for pilgrims, flying up the Nile to Aswan, thence across the Red Sea to Jidda and on into the interior to isolated Mecca. Fare...
Therefore last week when the creaking old Fabre liner Asia burned to her water line in the Red Sea harbor of Jidda, out of some thousand pious Mecca pilgrims, 112 shrewd Mohammedans who knew a good thing when they saw it, refused absolutely to leave the ship, knelt on the burning deck, died in an agony of expectation. The few Occidental passengers, the crew and the remaining pilgrims were rescued by harbor craft, but the Asia, on which many a U. S. citizen has sailed from Manhattan to the Near East, burned for a total loss...