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Mule Sense. At first the mules brayed in distress when the caravan was attacked; amateur muleskinners hauled them away in all directions. The mules resisted loudly: they had been taught by U.S. cavalrymen to trot in a decorous file after a bell mare...
...dress and waist industry, became an assistant cement tester in the U.S. Bureau of Standards, a U.S. Navy radio operator in World War I. He was also an unsuccessful playwright, a student of philosophy, education, socialism, editor of two highbrow magazines (Dial, The Sociological Review) and the American Caravan, an anthology of promising U.S. writers. In 1931, aged 36, Mumford sat down "to bring together, within a common frame, the ideas I had so far formulated on machines, cities, buildings, social life and people...
...eight years than she ever had been before. With Husband Red Norvo she led one of the first great bands of the so-called swing era. She made many very successful recordings for the Vocalion, Columbia and Decca labels. She sang on such "obscure" radio shows as the Camel Caravan, with such "obscure" bands as Bob Crosby...
This fabled land lies like a sort of buffer state between the empires of Stalin and Chiang Kai-shek-"far beyond the end of the Great Wall, out over the ancient caravan route, six oases to Baboon pass, six oases to Kami, along the rim of the Celestial Mountains, past the Red Salt Lake and the Blue Salt Lake." It is two days by plane to Urumchi and then two weeks by ancient truck across the drifting, trackless desert to Kashgar near the Russian border...
...possessor of conscience and integrity, he veered back & forth on intervention before Pearl Harbor. These attitudes told as much of his origin as his thinking. He was born and all his life lived in Salem, Ore. (pop. 30,900), the town whence his grandfather had led the biggest caravan of covered wagons ever to cross the Oregon Trail. On his 300-acre farm, "Fir Cone," McNary's house was shaded by Douglas firs 175 feet tall. An expert orchardist, he grew prize filberts, and developed the famous Imperial, biggest of prunes. Oregon sent him to the Senate first...