Word: sahara
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Celebrating the 20th anniversary of one of Hollywood's more durable marriages, Soprano Jeanette MacDonald and Actor Gene Raymond, a major in the Air Force Reserve, rubbed noses and nibbled wedding cake in Las Vegas, Nev., where Jeanette was singing at the Sahara...
...Sahara mineral resources will be a direct and decisive factor in our attempts to raise living standards in the French Union." So said French Premier Maurice Bourges-Maunoury as he appointed the first Minister of the Sahara, Socialist Max Lejeune. The appointment gave a new fillip to excited talk in bars and bourses, where businessmen bubbled with highflying schemes for converting France's colonial wasteland into a new Ruhr and inexhaustible source of raw materials...
...camel, jeep and helicopter, thousands of French geologists have long been prospecting the Sahara's vast lunar landscapes, some 1,000 miles from north to south and 3,000 miles from the Atlantic to the Sudan. Last week the government totted up what they found...
Between the Sahara Desert's ocean of drifting sands on the north and Kipling's "great, grey-green, greasy" Limpopo River in this land unknown were geographical wonders to rival any in the world: great lakes as large as those in North America, rivers challenging in majesty the Amazon and Mississippi, crashing waterfalls higher and wider than Niagara, and snow-clad mountains on the equator's rim soaring skyward beyond any in Europe. And there today, in the limitless stretches of land over which these giants stood silent sentinel for centuries, is a whole new world...
...French Presence. France grabbed Morocco from the weak Sultan Moulay Habid in that grand African divvy on the eve of World War I in which Britain got a free hand in Egypt, Spain a piece of northwest Morocco, and Germany a slice of Africa south of the Sahara...