Word: seaports
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over three long centuries ago, in the year 1590, there gathered in a little cathedral town, overlooking the rippling blue expanse that is the Mediterranean, a little group of most learned men. From France and Germany, and from Rome and Mycenae they had come to this, the little seaport of Pisa...
...Arab nation under a single ruler, had reached a crisis. Huge, gaunt Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia, was about to capture Yemen, last important independent territory on the Peninsula. The Imam of Yemen was reported dead and Ibn Saud's men already in the streets of the seaport of Hodeida. Belching clouds of black smoke, British and Italian cruisers and destroyers raced to Yemen "to protect nationals...
Explorer Harry St. John Bridger Philby has described the greater part of Yemen as "the worst mapped region of the inhabited globe." Its mountainous valleys are perhaps the most fertile in southern Arabia. Its almost deserted seaport of Mocha has become a synonym for coffee the world around. Coffee is still grown on Yemen's mountains but what little is exported goes through the port of Hodeida...
...LAST PIONEERS - Melvin Levy - King ($2.50). Adventures of a Russian Jew against the background of a thinly-disguised seaport on Puget Sound...
...public job had been as Seattle's assistant city attorney. A chubby little man writh a winning smile and a red-headed wife, he took his political platform from the church people of the city who complained of Seattle's vice and gambling, perennial issue in most seaport cities...