Word: caravans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French Equatorial African colony of Chad (see map), a ragged trapezoid of sand dunes, wasteland and jungle strategically situated between Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and Italian Libya (area: 461,202 sq.mi.; population: 549 whites, 1,432,000 natives). Lake Chad, on its western frontier, is an important junction of caravan routes, and a well-equipped air field at its capital, Fort-Lamy, makes it a desirable prize. Leader of the Chad revolt was black Civil Governor Adolphe Felix Sylvestre Eboue, French-educated rugby player whose administrative ability so impressed his superiors that he landed the only French governorship held...
...Opened a second office in Chicago, a new branch in Seattle, held a rally for 10,000 at Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, sent out a Youth Caravan of young speakers to plead for aid to Britain in 45 New York and New England towns...
Sunday morning the Witnesses climaxed their convention with a mass baptism for 2,500 in the pool of a Detroit amusement park. Candidates arrived in a mile-long caravan of cars, were garbed in backless swimming suits, trunks, nightgowns, house dresses and play suits. When the Witnesses were still cluttering the pool at noon, the park's regulars grew impatient. The Witnesses obligingly speeded the remaining baptisms to a six-second dunking apiece...
Princess Josephine Charlotte, Prince Baudouin and Prince Albert, children of Belgium's King Leopold III, fled from France to Portugal in a caravan headed by onetime Belgian Premier Paul van Zeeland. Accompanied by members of the Bourbon-Parma family, onetime Empress Zita of Austria and her son Archduke Otto, pretender to the nonexistent Austrian throne, and five of his brothers & sisters arrived the next night. Already in jampacked Lisbon was Belgian Premier Hubert Pierlot. En route was onetime French Premier and Defense Minister Edouard Daladier. Also on the way was onetime Austrian millionaire Baron Eugen Rothschild and his American...
Along the steaming highway man and beast jogged, followed by a caravan of 100 cars. Duke-ridden by a no-lb. jockey the first 14 miles, a lighter boy the next 14, and finally a little girl - was trotted for eight minutes, walked for four and rubbed down every ten miles at the request of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The doctor, who fasted for eight days prior to the race to "get the poison out of his system," had no S. P. C. A. to protect him. He just loped along, stopping now & then...