Word: mauritania
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...France's biggest postwar achievement has been to open vast new areas of the world to the 20th century. Since 1945, Air France has laid out a network of 111 stops in West Africa, Equatorial Africa and Madagascar. Long-isolated areas such as Mauritania (pop. 793 whites, 545,000 natives), Lake Chad, the Cameroons, are now within 18 hours of Paris and do a fast-growing business in pineapples, cotton and beef, all flown out by Air France...
...through the Alps, Sir Gavin got interested in those elephants: Were they the African, he asked, or the Indian species? A coin-collecting friend gave the answer by showing him Carthaginian coins with big-eared elephants on them. Sir Gavin's conclusion: Hannibal's "tanks" came from Mauritania (Morocco), where elephants were plentiful...
...Diego Brosset, onetime officer in the French Mehariste Camel Corps, took to the radio in London, in soldierly language exhorted the Free French to push on, urged the troops in Weygand's command to pitch in with them. "It is Brosset, a Saharan of Algiers, of Morocco, of Mauritania and the Sudan, who is asking you if you remember that ardor and devotion whose tradition once existed in the oases, in rocks, in mountains and in the desert. . . . Are you still worthy . . . Meharistes, who were my own young men? . . . Remember that Lawrence was at Damascus before the regular troops...
Died. Lieut. Patrice de MacMahon, grandson of Marshal Marie Edmé Patrice Maurice de MacMahon, second President of the Third (present) French Republic; of a wound inflicted when ambushed by tribesmen: in Mauritania, French West Africa...
...Cunard liner Mauritania, swiftest on the Atlantic, has attained a speed of 27 knots (about 31 m. p. h.). She crosses the Atlantic in slightly under five days. The speediest U. S. motor boats (such as those owned by Gar Wood) travel...