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Bagdad on the Subway to Bagdad on the Tigris in Ten Minutes
Lowell Thomas narrates his historic New York to Bagdad radio telephone link inaugurating the New York Bagdad service. He recalls meeting Said Rashid in Bagdad and he recalls Feisal and Ghazi, linking the journey by short wave and land lines across continents. The reporter notes the route through London Cairo El Kantara Gaza Jaffa Haifa Nazareth and across the North Arabian desert to Bagdad. He expresses a thrill at conversing with Rashid in far-off Bagdad.
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Lowell Thomas
Bagdad
Kingdom of
Iraq
Thomas
New York-Bagdad
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Kingdom
The
Near East
New York
O. Henry
Tigris
Euphrates
Righed Rashid
Rashid
Haroun-al-Rashid
Arabia
Emir Feisal
Lawrence of Arabia
Feisal
Ghazi
Waldorf-Astoria
Garden of Eden
Globe
London
Europe
Cairo
Africa
Suez Canal
el Kantara
Allenby
Sinai Desert
Israel
Gaza
Goliath
Delilah
Sampson
Palestine
Jaffa
David
Solomon
Jonah
Haifa
Nazareth
North
Arabian Desert