Word: morocco
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...raging across Europe and Asia, the continent of Africa was stirring wakefully. Its coming to consciousness promised both treasures and trouble. Last week the three corners of this triangular continent made headlines-in Egypt, where a young King sought release from British control and power over restless mobs; in Morocco, where Americans rolled out big bomber bases on French soil; in South Africa, where a Prime Minister, trying to disenfranchise his country's colored voters, was stopped by the courts (see below). Since all of these were troubled waters, the Communists fished there. But the conflicts of power, pride...
...French Morocco is the site of the latest American invasion, peaceful but hectic, bringing airmen and planes and contractors with millions of dollars to spend...
...French Morocco, where the U.S. is building five bases, $2,000,000
worth of material was stolen during storage.
Some of this information came from the House Executive Expenditures subcommittee, headed by Virginia Democrat Porter Hardy Jr., which made an on-the-scene investigation in Morocco; other testimony came from civilian engineers and from Air Force men. All of it seemed to point a finger of blame at the Army Corps of Engineers, which commissioned private firms to build the bases...
...sites, a pretty good job has been done. A wage premium was necessary to recruit men for the Arctic Greenland job, where the work was hazardous and hardly anyone had ever been before. A heavy rain before the blacktop surface was laid caused the roller to go through the Morocco base apron. "It's just like the man who cuts his hay in the afternoon and hopes it doesn't rain," explained the general...