Word: algerian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...both Empires' raw materials, production means, tonnage. Thus, if the French Army needs 6-inch shells worse than the British need anti-aircraft shells, British factories will hustle the former instead of the latter. Or if Britain needs bottoms for Canadian wheat worse than France needs them for Algerian mutton, to Canada they shall...
...Sturdy French Algerian and Tunisian farmer in one of Rome's old granaries had their crops gathered, their barns bursting with a big wheat surplus before harvest began in France. There it was three weeks late because last autumn's freezes killed out 25% of the winter wheat which then had to be resown. Adequate snowfalls and spring rains helped, but the French wheat crop will be well under last year's, though ample for French needs even had 268,000,000 bushels not been carried over. The great French need was not wheat but field-hands...
...Cruiser Foch, M. Daladier proceeded to Algiers, where Arab chieftains and Zouave and Spahi detachments accompanied him to a monument for Algerian War dead. Here M. Daladier summed up the impressions of his trip: "The Colonials are French-they will stay French...
...Martin-de-Ré, in the Bay of Biscay, the convict awaits the sailing of the plodding 3,800-ton "hellship" La Martinière, formerly a German freighter, now outfitted with steel-girded cells and mutiny-suppressing hot-steam hose. Into her hold go Foreign Legion deserters, Algerian Spahis convicted of rape, French Indo-Chinese murderers, Circassian thieves, arch-crooks from Montmartre. The ship arrives in 50 or 60 days at St. Laurent, on the Maroni River dividing Surinam* and French Guiana, where after another brief internment, most convicts are assigned to a prison at Cayenne or Kourou...
March, "Flag of Victory"Blon *Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro" Mozart *Largo from "Xerxes" Handel *Ouverture Solennelle, "1812" Tchaikovsky *French Military March, from the "Algerian" Suite Saint-Saens *Overture to "Benvenuto Cellini" Berlioz *"Where the Citrons Bloom," Waltzes Strauss *Divertissement Ibert *"On the Trail," from the "Grand Canyon" Suite Grofe "Turkey in the Straw" Arranged by Guion Torch Dance from "Henry VIII" German *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...