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Ernest F. Gamache--Executive director, American Foundation for Tropical Medicine and the Liberian Institute of the American Foundation for Tropical Medicine. Works in Liberia...
Brig. Gen. James S. Simmons, U.S.A. (retired), Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, will deliver a dedication address today at the Liberian Institute of the American Foundation for Tropical Medicine, in Liberia...
...toms throbbed through Liberia's steaming jungle. Their message: a big iron bird had fallen from the sky-find it. Tribesmen left their villages, padded along remote trails, paddled through swamps; Liberian constabulary crisscrossed the bush. Above, skimming the treetops, rumbled 35 search planes...
...made routine stops at Leopoldville, Belgian Congo, and Accra, on the Gold Coast. At Accra, a faulty magneto on the right inboard engine had been repaired. Three and a half hours and nearly 700 miles later, flying through a drizzly night, the plane approached Roberts Field near the Liberian capital of Monrovia. Veteran Pilot Frank Crawford, 38, asked for landing instructions from the tower. He reported trouble with the radio beam on which he was flying-the stronger beacon at Dakar, 762 miles away in French West Africa, seemed to be interfering with local signals. After that, silence...
Into Baltimore harbor last week steamed the converted Liberty ship Simeon G. Reed with a 10,000-ton cargo of iron ore, the first shipment to the U.S. from mines in Liberia. To get out the ore, Republic Steel Corp., which bought an estimated 62% interest in Liberian Mining Ltd. two years ago (TIME, March 28, 1949), has had to build Liberia's first railroad, from the mines to the port of Monrovia 43 miles away. The high-grade Liberian ore (whose iron content is almost 70%, compared to 51% for Lake Superior ore) is rich enough...