Word: caravaning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...western desert, the R.A.F. attacked a caravan of vehicles, destroying considerable supplies of gasoline. Too late, the attackers learned they fought their own troops. . . . Near Bagdad, in Iraq, the R.A.F. actually attacked British ground forces. Such episodes contributed to the flat statement by one high-ranking British officer in the Middle East cam paign: 'I will not go into action again unless I am able to give direct orders to the air squadrons allocated to my support...
...defense stamp (10? and up) was good for admission to a "Dance for Defense" in Detroit last week, at which Barry Wood sang Any Bonds Today? The dance not only plugged defense but was a feature of the RCA-Victor Dance Caravan, touring the Midwest in a ten-car special train. In four days, 23,000 youngsters jitterbugged to music by Tommy Dorsey and Shep Fields, gawked at the $100,000 props (palm trees, waterfall, blue silk ceiling) taken from the disastrous Dance Carnival opened last summer by Monte Proser in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden (TIME, June...
Next day, at a mass meeting, students got up a petition demanding that the Talmadge-packed Board of Regents be unpacked. The students rounded up a caravan of 108 cars, rolled out of Athens bound for the Capitol at Atlanta, 70 miles away. At their head was a jalopy flying red and black streamers and bearing Student Leader Alpha Fowler Jr., son of a State legislator. Behind came placards: We Don't Want a Discredited University. . . . Keep Politics Out of the University. . . . Talmadge, Phooey...
With horns blowing and a sound truck blaring Dixie, the caravan circled the Capitol twice, then halted at a statue of oldtime Populist Demagogue Thomas E. Watson. A student jammed a wax bust of Talmadge over the statue's head. Up jumped Cheerleader William Malone and bellowed through his megaphone "Are we afraid of Talmadge?" The mob roared: "Hell...
Finally, singing "Glory, Glory to old Georgia," and cheered by thousands of Atlantans in the streets, the caravan whooped back to Athens...