Word: nyasaland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Falkland Islands and the Seychelles; to Grenada and the Windward Islands; to the "Council and Chiefs of the Gold Coast, Ashanti and the Northern Territory and to all members of the community"; and to "all sections of European, Asiatic and African communities of His Majesty's subjects in Nyasaland...
...bridge means uninterrupted railway communication between Beira, Portuguese East African port, and Lake Nyasa, important link in the water route to the interior. Nyasaland, a British protectorate, ships its tobacco and other products through Beira on the Mozambique Channel. Up to now passengers and freight have had to ferry across the wide Zambesi, from railhead to railhead, on slow flat-bottomed river steamers. Now a motorist can entrain at Beira and get off next morning on the high plateau of Central Nyasaland...
...Senegal they will be joined by the expedition's sponsor, white-haired Sarah Lavanburg Straus, 74, widow of Oscar Solomon Straus, onetime Minister to Turkey, aunt of Ambassador to France Jesse Isidor Straus. No tyro at roughing it, robust Mrs. Straus equipped and led an expedition to Nyasaland and British East Africa in 1929, spent last winter poking about Mayan ruins in Yucatan. With the Field Museum's experts she will trek to Timbuktu and Lake Chad, return to the U. S. after two months when the party reaches Lagos. South Nigeria. Her maid will accompany...