Word: camels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Singhji Bahadur, 62, soldier-statesman: of cancer of the throat; in Bombay. He succeeded to the title when he was seven, began to rule Bikaner (pop. about 1,000,000) when he was 18. He multiplied the province's income tenfold. For the British he commanded the Bikaner Camel Corps in the Boxer Rebellion, served in the Imperial War Cabinet in World War I, was the only Indian to sign the Versailles Treaty. For 40 years he dazzled English coronations, a walking tower of jewels. At his Golden Jubilee in 1937 he gave to charity his weight in gold...
...Newly found fossils in Nebraska supported the view that the camel and rhinoceros went to Asia from places of origin in what...
...Beveridge plan carries Britain farther along the road to high-cost economy by adding a larger (30%) fixed charge on British taxpayers and British business, this straw might be heavy enough to break the camel's sagging back...
...Packards went to Tunis. Reynolds visited the Berthome (Tunisian Maginot) Line, which "was located between the Libyan frontier and Médenine and consisted mostly of elaborate underground works where whole battalions could hide. There were tank traps and miles of barbed wire, intended specifically to halt cavalry and camel corps. . . . Every oasis was a fortress in itself, complete with machine-gun nests, concrete redoubts, subterranean air-raid shelters, and still more barbed wire entanglements...
...everybody--but Bing provides the perfect contrast, besides singing as well as ever. Definitely the weak sister of the featured trio, Dorothy Lamour looks adequate if nothing more. Fortunately she isn't asked to engage in the battle of quips that rages around her. A couple of wise-cracking camels are the only real competition for Paramount's daffy duo. They don't mind when Bob actually succeeds in making a monkey out of himself. But when Bob and Bing give a hot foot to a whole Arab tribe, they give the audience a camel's-eye view...