Word: camels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...North Carolina, where tobacco talks, Trinity [Methodist] College changed its name to Duke University for $1,000,000 a year of the late James B. Duke's money. Last week 112-year-old Wake Forest [Baptist] College agreed to walk no miles for some Camel cigaret money...
...Sugar Plum Fairy danced to a set of camel bells, the Arabs to an accompaniment of carefully modulated burps. Tchaikovsky's flutes, piccolos and muted strings were drowned out by washboards, police sirens, breaking glass...
Kalgan, crossroad of camel caravans from Central Asia, is the Mongolian gateway through the Great Wall into North China. Occupied by the Chinese Communist Eighth Route Army, Kalgan has become the Communist metropolis (130,000 population), outranking Yenan in size and wealth. It has a cigaret factory, machine shops, a power plant, an iron smelter, railway facilities. It is military headquarters for all Communist operations in Shansi, Hopeh, Chahar and Jehol Provinces and in Manchuria...
...Russians broke the hold of the lamas over the primitive Mongol sheep and camel herders. Then, in 1924, in response to one of those spontaneous popular demands that commonly follows a Red Army occupation, the People's Republic of Outer Mongolia was set up. It was nominally independent, virtually a 17th Soviet Republic...
Arabs in the Cistern. The $11, Eaton had understood, was to cover the whole journey, but the sheik in charge understood differently; on the second day the camel drivers went on strike. This was the first of many sit-downs ordered by the camel sheik, after each of which Eaton recorded laconically in his journal: "Pacified him with promises...