Word: caravans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rest Required. Crerar believes in austerity, especially for generals. He takes every opportunity to deny himself luxuries, especially food & drink. Plenty of rest, however, he considers not a luxury but a necessity. "I don't think," he once said, "that my men in Italy grudged me a caravan. After...
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...
...mules got influenza, gastroenteritis, laminitis, mange, screw worm, sprains, wounds. They got the best medical care from veterinarians attached to the caravan. They were given blood transfusions. The seriously sick and hurt were sent to the rear for repairs...
...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...