Word: cameleer
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...size of the U. S.-there were no arteries of transport on which agricultural or mineral wealth could be carried down to the sea and the world's markets. The poppy's drowsy seed, very valuable and very light, was the logical, evolutionary Persian product. A camel could carry thousands of dollars' worth very satisfactorily on its back. Just as logically, "Uncle Fred" Delano's commission returned to Geneva and recommended that one good way to prevent the world's being flooded by Persian opium was to build the Persians a railway so they could...
...Royal Majesty Neptunus Rex and accused of winning the $100,000 Old Gold Prize, to which he pleaded guilty. He was then given the blindfold test of popular brands to see whether he knew an Old Gold when he smoked one. He failed most miserably, picking a Camel...
Evidence was then submitted to the court to prove that Birdman Staggs inveterately smoked Camels. He was found guilty & Camel-smoking Staggs was ordered to furnish each member of the court with a pack of Old Golds. C. BRINE...
...present war, there is probably no Japanese flag officer who knows more about China and the China coast. Admiral Yonai drinks, but sparingly, even at the Gargantuan drinking bouts for which Japan is famous. His chief hobby is calligraphy; drawing intricate Chinese characters on rice paper with a camel's hair brush, a sport that requires great steadiness of hand. His fine Japanese hand had its work cut out fortnight ago when Emperor Hirohito called him in and handed him the problem of Shanghai...
Moreover I have on my desk a Brooks Brothers catalog, put out in the spring of 1908, with a photograph of a camel's hair ulster as part of its regular ready-made stock. I was sufficiently interested in the matter to try to verify my recollection that the material was indeed camel's hair and, with the co-operation of their Woolens Department, I ascertained that the piece-goods from which they were cut in those days came from Jaeger's, in Austria, were 100% pure camel's hair, and that Brooks Brothers were...