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Over the Hills. Last year, with the Nationalists finally driven to the hills, the Russians widened the caravan trails through Sinkiang and brought their tanks and heavy artillery to bear on the Kazaks. In four battles, the rebellious tribesmen lost 3,000 killed. Osman was captured and killed. His 5,000-odd survivors split into groups and headed south. Last week, after months of agony, picking their way through uncharted passes across the highest mountains in the world, one party of 120 Kazak men, women & children reached the end of the trail-Mohammedan Kashmir and its "City...
Several million dollars worth of beauty, brains, and brass will roll into the Square Friday morning as the Hollywood good-will caravan visits Cambridge, 15 limousines strong...
Harvard students will have a full opportunity to get to see the Good-Will Caravan because of Friday's holiday. Extra police have been detailed to prevent any disturbances...
...these wondrous virtues, spread in newspapers and on billboards and blared from radios and from a 17-car railroad caravan of patent medicine men and entertainers (e.g., Chico Marx, Mickey Rooney, Carmen Miranda) have made Hadacol the world's biggest selling "tonic." In four years-and on an investment of only $2,500-LeBlanc's sales have jumped from $75,000 to an estimated $25 million this year...
...Cotton Caravan. For cotton-spraying time in the Sudan, a British inventor has devised a camel-borne spraying machine, which he demonstrated at the International Agricultural Conference in Sussex last week. The hand-operated pump fitted with two nozzles can spray crops in desert areas where no tractor-drawn equipment can be used. A dromedary named Joan (see cut) was drafted from the Chessington Zoo for last week's demonstration...