Word: caravans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coming back in the evening, the Special will leave Dartmouth environs at approximately six o'clock and will be due at North Station three hours later. The caravan will be equipped with diner and club car and will be an all coach train...
That peace had not accompanied coalition soon became evident. In an ill-timed visit to North-West Frontier Province, Nehru was met at Peshawar airdrome by 5,000 Moslem sympathizers, armed with spears and guns. His caravan of armored cars was stoned. Tribesmen insulted him by walking out on his speeches. Enraged, the Pandit called them "pitiful pensioners," an allusion to the fact that Britain pays them annual tribal subsidies to be nice. Gleefully, the League's newspaper Dawn editorialized that the Pandit should be made "honorary propaganda secretary of the Moslem League...
...pace with a brisk 105 steps to the minute, trudged a slight, bespectacled old man wearing a World War I campaign hat. Malaria, cholera, the heat and exhaustion had plucked younger men from the line, but Uncle Joe, then 59, never faltered. He refused to ride one of the caravan's few mules: they were for the nurses and the wounded. Somehow the ragged line struggled through to the roadhead in India. The first, disastrous Burma campaign was ended...
...Army C-54 Crescent Caravan swooped down on Washington's National Airport, a picked escort of 50 white-gloved soldiers snapped to attention. Down a long steel ramp came the flag-draped coffins of five U.S. airmen, past an honor guard at present arms. Five hearses were waiting. From a common burial ground in the mountain village of Koprivnik, the U.S. flyers shot down over Tito's Yugoslavia (TIME, Sept. 2) had come back to the U.S. They were taken to a chapel at Arlington Cemetery to await final funeral services later this month...
...Dawson Creek on the first lap of its 2,000-mile Alcan tour, General Worthington said: "We are not pointing the finger at any nation . . . but we have to consider if any enemy exists, just where he would come and why."* At week's end, as the caravan rolled north in trucks and autos, the only enemies encountered were dust and mosquitoes...