Word: monrovia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...Monrovia, Calif...
Across the South Atlantic, Republic Steel Corp. was working a concession in the rich mountain area of Liberia. Within two years it hoped to be shipping 1,000,-ooo tons of iron ore a year from Monrovia to steel mills...