Word: zanzibar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took advantage of clear weather to bomb Heligoland (which Britain traded for Zanzibar in 1890), claimed hits on two Nazi cruisers...
...delicate job of Ambassador to Europe's newest Dictator Francisco Franco of Spain, the President named Alexander Wilbourne Weddell, *63, of Richmond, Va., urbane careerman whose first consulate 29 years ago was in Zanzibar, and who since 1933 has been trying, as Ambassador, to keep Argentina friendly despite a U. S. embargo on Argentine beef...
...stone buildings of Makerere College for Higher Education, first all-Negro university in East Africa. Recommended by a Royal Commission on Higher Education, the university will speak English, will teach the arts, science, agriculture, medicine, education, veterinary science and engineering to bright young blacks of Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika and Zanzibar...
...Barbour Lathrop, who became a friend and patron, financed a trip for Fairchild to Java. This was the beginning of travels which took him, eventually as head of the Department of Agriculture's Division of Foreign Plant Exploration and Introduction, to scores & scores of countries from Finland to Zanzibar. He studied cotton growing in Egypt, bamboo culture in Japan, water chestnuts in China, hops in Bohemia, nuts in England. He brought avocados from Hawaii, mangoes from Bombay, onions from Egypt, mangosteens (a pineapple-apricot-orange-flavored fruit with a dark, tough rind) from Queensland and Java, chayotes ("a delicious...
...Sultan of Zanzibar, who likes nothing better than sailing his yacht in the Indian Ocean and going to London now & then, came to his senses some time ago. But the English association was stubborn. Seyyid Sir Khalifa bin Harub knew well that in a few more months his Sultanate would go through the East African equivalent of 776 and he might do little or no yachting. Finally, last week, news came from Zanzibar that an agreement had been signed, Indian pickets could relax. From now on the English association's monopoly will govern only half the trade in Zanzibar...