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...juncture Snedaker's troubles multiplied. The anti-cholera regulations had ruined standard bus, train and plane schedules; service from Egypt to many countries was discontinued. To ship TIME to Beirut, for example, copies had to be moved from Cairo by truck over the desert to Kantara on the Suez Canal, ferried across the Canal and dispatched by train over the Sinai desert to Haifa, passed through troubled Palestine in a private car, over the mountains of Lebanon and along the Mediterranean coast road into Beirut, from which they could be airborne to Middle East subscribers and readers...
...second phase of the operation would involve a fast offensive against the Iberian peninsula and penetration across the Mediterranean into North Africa, at the same time engaging a powerful attack through Persia, Iraq and Syria aiming at the Suez Canal...
...Cervantes finally got back to Spain, he found nothing but poverty and idleness. He had a wife, a mistress, and an illegitimate child to support. Says Biographer Bell: "We may suspect that his life at Madrid at this time was not unlike that of the soldier described in El Suez de los Di-vorcios [The Judge of the Divorce Court, a tale by Cervantes]. According to his satirical wife, this soldier earns nothing, goes to Mass, stands gossiping at the Guadalajara Gate, comes home to dinner at two, spends the afternoon and evening gambling, and returns at midnight, when...
...Queens joined the Mauretania and old Aquitania in ferrying troops between Australia, New Zealand and Suez. Up to Pearl Harbor, the Queens had carried over 80,000 Empire troops, but their career in war had just begun...
Luxury Ferry. Grey and ghostlike in her war paint and swifter than any but the fastest warships (an average speed: 30 knots), the Queen Mary whipped around the Cape of Good Hope and up to Suez, turned up again & again in Boston and in Manhattan's North River, was sighted by Allied sailormen in ports and anchorages around the world. By the end of her war service she had carried 765,000 Allied troops to & from battle areas...