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...their present positions. Only thus can we permanently elimjnate many millions of people from the relief rolls. [In] some sections of the North-west and Southwest . . . many million acres of land must be restored to grass or trees if we are to prevent a new and man-made Sahara. 3) "I am looking for a sound means which I can recommend to provide at once security against several of the great disturbing factors in life-especially those which relate to unemployment and old age. ... I believe that the funds necessary to provide this insurance should be raised by contribution rather...
Meanwhile last week a squadron of French army biplanes roared across the Sahara on a null tour of French African territory which began fortnight ago, will last for another month. Possibly inspired by Italy's formidable demonstration in the Balbo flight, France's air cruise was ordered by bespectacled Air Minister Pierre Cot. The full complement contained 30 planes which started from Istres Airdrome in southern France. One cracked up in Spain, another in Morocco. At desolate Bidon V (Gastank No. 5) three more planes had to hang back with engine trouble, caught up again in Upper Senegal...
...Twenty-two bombers will set out in October from Istres Airdrome in southern France. They will cross the Mediterranean to the west coast of Morocco, fly down the coast to the shoulder of Senegal, thence inland across the French Sudan, nearly to the Congo. Finally, north over the Sahara to the Mediterranean again, and home - 15,600 mi. in all. Volunteer officers & crew were called to begin training, at Istres. Like Balbo's men, they will be held strictly incommunicado until time to take off. Air Minister Pierre Cot, who only lately learned to fly, will...
...charmed by the call of the desert and a wily philandering Arab in the person of Ramon Navarro. The story is old, the treatment is older, and not even a trio of the best second-rate stars in Culver City can give any more glamour to the exhausted Sahara, but withal "The Barbarian" now playing at the University Theatre in the Square is entertaining in a mild harmless...
...life. Very soon all three decided the social pace there was too fast for them, moved on to get away from cocktails and all-night parties. On their leisurely way back Wauthier and Seabrook joined in a hunt for missing French airmen, Companion Worthington was temporarily lost crossing the Sahara in a motor truck, but they all left Africa together, flew home safe & sound...