Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plan is being ramrodded by energetic, bottle-bald Maurice Lemaire, 61, State Secretary for Industry, who gained fame by his postwar reconstruction of the French National Railroads, which he bossed from 1946 to 1949. Just back from an on-the-sand survey, Lemaire optimistically figures that the Sahara can produce at a rate of 3,500,000 bbl. a year for France by 1958, although there are now only three wells. To meet that short-range goal, the Cabinet last week allocated $6,000,000 to build two 150-mile, 10 in. pipelines from the oilfields at Hassi-Messaoud...
...Sifting sand...
...satisfied with winning their independence from France and Spain a year ago, some of Morocco's political leaders are agitating to chip off a slice of northwest Africa roughly the size of Western Europe. The land between Morocco and Senegal is mostly sand, but there are underground riches to be tapped. For the story of the rebel leader who hates the French because he was once denied a tax collector's job, see FOREIGN NEWS, Empire of Sand...
...civilization is the civilization of the Sahara. Our religion is the religion of the Sahara." Then, to excited thousands, he delivers his message: "The battle for the Sahara has begun. We must win it. I proclaim that we will be traitors if we lose one single grain of Sahara sand...
...Fassi's battle for the Sahara sand is a picayune affair so far. Commandos of his liberation army, no longer needed to fight the French in Morocco, have been trucked down through the Rio de Oro and loosed in vast, sparsely settled Mauritania. Joined by turbaned camel riders who dearly love to fight, Moroccan irregulars have launched attacks on isolated French outposts, killed half a dozen French soldiers and burned a few French armored cars. North of Fort Trinquet last month there was a more serious clash in which, according to Moroccan reports, the French lost 22 men. Nevertheless...