Word: sudan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years later Ted Farley, now Cat's vice president in charge of special projects, went to the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. He found some Englishmen working a cotton field with a dragline plow operated by a gasoline engine. Like Botts, he had Cat ship him a couple of its prize tractors. But by the time he got to the plantation, the Englishmen were using a German-made diesel engine-and had slashed their costs...
...Ahmed killed the Premier? He explained: "Because he caused Egypt to lose the Sudan, surrendered Palestine to the Jews, and dissolved the Moslem Brotherhood . . . the only organization fighting for Islam in the past 20 years...
Fighting trypanosomiasis by attacking the flies with insecticides has never been wholly effective. Some flies always survived and quickly re-established the fly population. As a result, the whole great African area (including Kenya, Uganda and Sudan) has only about 16 million head of scrubby, inferior cattle. Even these hardy beasts often die of the disease. David Rees-Williams, British Undersecretary for Colonies, says of Antrycide: "It will enable Africa to carry much more cattle than Argentina, where there are now about 33 million head...
This capsizing of the earth happens periodically, Brown believes. The last time it caused Noah's flood. One pole was then in the Sudan, and Noah and his family lived in temperate South Africa. "In the 600th year of Noah's life . . . were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened."* No geophysicist, Noah did not realize that the poles had shifted...
Died. Field Marshal George Francis Milne, Baron Milne of Salonika and of Rubislaw, 81, onetime Chief of the British Imperial General Staff (1926-33); after long illness; in London. A veteran of Kitchener's campaign in the Sudan and a general officer since 1913, doughty old "Uncle George" served in World War II as an air-raid warden...