Word: tablelands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left the great swamp known as Lake Chad (see map, p. 23), heading north. They passed through nightmarish, weird, surrealistic terrain-along an enormous dry river bed, past sudden oval valleys with lush black soil floors, across a stark desert of slippery sand and sharp stones, across an eroded tableland, through the magnificent mountain peaks (highest: 11,200 ft.) of Tibesti, along the edges of 1,000 ft.-precipices looking down on valleys full of bulrushes, across wastes of crumbling volcanic rock. They drank from sweet wells and pools bitter as quinine from the stalings of endless camels...
Onward & Upward. Last July's Democratic platform made no mention of that fiscal dodo, that old museum piece: a balanced budget. Franklin Roosevelt held to precedent-he didn't mention it, either. In its place he substituted a picture of a fertile, high tableland of national income, its rare air oxygenated by Federally subsidized public works, after defense spending ends. He termed the U. S. tax burden "moderate" compared to other countries -somewhat as a doctor might advise a patient suffering from pneumonia in one lung that other people had double pneumonia...
...recognition of ex-Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia as an ally was the signal for all good Ethiopians to come to the aid of a wrecking party, some elements of which were made clearer last week by a correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor lately returned from the mountainous tableland whose capital, is Addis Ababa...
North Anchor of the British blockade in the Atlantic is the volcanic tableland called Iceland, which, until April 10, shared Christian X with Denmark as her King. British warships took Iceland under patrol, British troops were sent there "protectively" while the Nazis rampaged through Norway. Last week, following reports of a German expedition about to sail to seize Iceland, Prime Minister Mackenzie King of Canada announced that a Canadian force had landed at Reykjavik, home of the world's oldest parliament (930 A.D.). Should the Germans arrive and fight, the Battle for Iceland would bring World War II within...