Word: africa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York's Hunter College, was a man of influence. That, plus Mildred Gillars' soft and insinuating American voice, brought her a highly paid job-opportunity to show her talent. Soon she was doing her best to undermine the morale of U.S. troops, was famed from Africa to Italy as Axis Sally...
...Botts in Africa. This well-fed, big-sinewed Cat had grown from a kitten bred in 1904 by Ben Holt of Stockton, Calif. Some of the farms around Stockton were marshy, and Holt spent years trying to build a tractor that wouldn't bog down in them. He designed one that would move on a track and pick it up and lay it down as it went-the first Caterpillar. As demand for the new-fangled invention spread east, Holt opened a branch plant in East Peoria. That became the main plant after the Holt Manufacturing Co. merged with...
...Unrequited Love." In 1904, Fact-maker Weizmann went to live in England. The British government had already (in 1903) offered the Jews a national home in Uganda, British East Africa, and in the El Arish district, now in Egypt, which last month the Israeli army belatedly and briefly occupied. The Zionists had refused. It was up to Weizmann to explain why only Palestine would do. He started talking in 1906, when he first met Balfour; he was still talking (harder & faster) in 1916, when he was made director of the Admiralty Laboratories and invented a new means of producing acetone...
...knew a little more. In 1930, on a trip through Africa and the Middle East, Novelist Evelyn Waugh had dined with Besse on the roof of his home in Aden. Waugh had described him (under the pseudonym of M. Leblanc) in When the Going Was Good: "He talked of Abyssinia, where he had heavy business undertakings ... he expressed his contempt for the poetry of Rimbaud . . ." He thrived on risk and had made and lost more than one fortune. He liked shark-infested waters: it made swimming more interesting...
There are many ways to answer that, but one ought to be enough. Which n action, in World War II, sent arms and food all over the world to failing Allies and then followed up with armies, navies, and air forces to Europe, Asia, Africa, to outposts in North and South America, and on islands across the seven seas--yet, at home, kept up the highest standard of living the world has ever known? The United States system, as it has been and still is, needs make no apologies to nay other...