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Twenty-two years later, still on the move (whenever Realtor Dankowske could leave his business), they had worn out some six horses and wagons, bought their first car. Then Fred Dankowske had an inspiration. He designed a motor caravan, paid International Harvester Co. $800 to build it. A two-cylinder high-wheeler, it contained a stove and a folding bed. When the Dankowskes wanted a bath, they dunked themselves in a creek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Nomads | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...Eddie Cantor's Camel Caravan show. CBS. Substitute, starting last week (perhaps for good): Blondie, a radio version of the cinema version of a Hearstpaper comic strip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Vacationers | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...CANNIBAL CARAVAN-Charles ("Cannibal") Miller-Furman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Festive Vertebrae | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

This wealth cannot make up for the loss of the industrialized China coast. Nor can enough war material reach China by difficult caravan routes across the great deserts from Soviet Asia. But under stress the newly nationalist Chinese have done what no other people have ever done: they have picked up their factories-as a Biblical character once picked up his bed-and walked. Industrial equipment valued at $100,000,000 Chinese (U. S. $3,448,275) was removed from Shanghai in the early days of the war. That was only a beginning of a great industrial and cultural migration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Background For War: ASIA - Chiang's War | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...based on cowboy songs, was close-knit, percussive, incisive, wasting not a grace note in its evocation of the dapper, New York-born killer who flourished in the Southwest in the '703 and '80s. The choreography of Eugene Loring and the dancing of the Ballet Caravan were no less exciting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: For the People | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

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