Word: voyageurs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reserves. By 1964 France hopes to be pumping 30 million tons of oil a year out of the Sahara-almost the exact amount needed for domestic consumption. But if France is sold on the Sahara, the Sahara is not entirely sold on France. Last week, as self-styled commis voyageur (traveling salesman) for the Sahara, Soustelle flew in his ministerial plane straight into the scorched and craggy land of the Mozabites, the most sales-resistant people in the desert...
...annual riot of trading and boozing at the fur company store on Mackinac Island on a June afternoon in 1822, a gun went off accidentally and blasted a gaping hole in the belly of Alexis St. Martin, ig, a French Canadian voyageur. For the rest of his days he had a hole in his abdominal wall leading directly into his stomach. The blast that let the daylight into St. Martin's stomach enabled U.S. Army Surgeon William Beaumont, in years of experiments, to shed the first light on the mysteries of human digestion...
...Alexis St. Martin, a French-Canadian voyageur, took a shotgun blast in the abdomen at Fort Mackinac in 1822, but his life was saved by Army Surgeon William Beaumont. A small opening in St. Martin's abdominal wall and stomach remained, and through it, over many years, Beaumont made hundreds of observations on stomach functions...