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Only West African reports pleasing to the Allies last week were Free French opinions that the Trans-Saharan Railway, now being built from North Africa to Dakar, would have little military use for years to come. It must cross 1,700 miles of shifting sands and jungle brush, is a building job as tremendous as the Panama Canal. Its chief current value to Vichy is as an unhealthy place to send political prisoners and refugees whom Vichy wants...
...whole project was so successful this year that plans are being considered for continuing it again next summer. A public bathing beach could be made, and there is a large amount of brush around and in the pond which needs to be cleared
...wall separating the front and back rooms a ¼ h.p. electric motor runs a fan that cools off the front room. And off the other end of the motor, someone installed a shoe brush with brown polish...
...south the British crossed from Iraq and made sure of the richest single oil field in existence; their warships in the Persian Gulf squashed Iran's minuscule Navy, sinking two sloops, capturing seven Axis ships. Indian troops landed at Bandar Shahpur and, after a brief brush, made sure of the world's largest oil-cracking plant, at Abadan. Not needed were more Indian troops poised on the border of Baluchistan, where shaving the head and varnishing the skull is the poor man's pith helmet...
With a bottle of rice wine, a can of kerosene, a sharp knife, he went far into the brush. Fortifying himself with the wine, he sloshed kerosene over the tindery brush, lit it, then made an earnest effort to disembowel himself...