Word: caravans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trucker, rooted out of bed at night, is called upon to climb behind awheel and high-tail over the road to deliver a load to a waiting ship, or a defense plant slowed down for a lack of parts. (A few hours after Pearl Harbor, a seven-truck caravan rumbled out of Massachusetts with freight for a Pacific convoy, despite a Midwest blizzard made the transcontinental run in eight days.) Trucks move heavy tonnage of foodstuffs and supplies to Army camps; make hour-by-hour deliveries of parts from subcontractors to prime producers. Tractors (engine and cab units) now work...
...whom most of the world believed innocent, Tom Mooney grew famous; he was labor's international cause célèbre. When he was finally pardoned in 1939, after 22 years, a caravan of 200 automobiles followed him from prison to San Francisco; he walked bareheaded leading "a great labor parade, spoke to thousands from a platform at City Hall. Parents held up their children to see Tom Mooney...
With the first public performance of "Blonds for Defense" scheduled for March 18 at Fort Devens, Pi Eta expects a special caravan of Army truckz to convey cast and sets to the training camp. The musical revue, directed by Paul Anderson with the book by David J. Conroy, will be shown in Cambridge March 19 through...
Four hundred miles northeast of Lhasa, Tibetan soldiers stopped the caravan. Finally it was allowed to go on. Many a Kazak was killed by bandits; many of their animals died in sudden storms...
...Demchok, on the border of Kashmir, the caravan met a band of soldiers, wearily prepared to fight yet another battle. Then, at a parley, they learned they were facing British border troops from Kashmir. All the Kazaks wanted, they told the Kashmir officials, was a place to graze, land where they could live. To reach their final camp the Kazaks had a last ordeal-to lead their camels and herd their sheep over the 11,300-foot Zoji-la Pass. When the great caravan pitched its tattered tents at Muzaffarabad, only 3,500 Kazaks were left...