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Word: caravans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Planes & Camels. For the French side of the story, a CBS crew headed by Paris Correspondent David Schoenbrun got pictures of the French forces-in planes, weapons carriers, on camels and afoot-swooping down on a gunrunning caravan in the desert, raiding a burned-out farm settlement for hiding rebels (they found one suspect), seizing a cache of bombs in a raid within Algiers' famed casbah. Schoenbrun underscored the heavy threat of terrorism in daily civilian life, the heavy commitment of France's money and prestige, the huge stake of the 1,000,000 French and other European...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Focus on Algeria | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

Sickness delayed the arrival of the Studentischer Madrigal-choir of Munster University in West Germany, whose Volkswagen caravan drove into the Yard last night. Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society members stood in the rain for several hours waiting to greet the 52 students and their director, Frau Herma Reuter. The group will present a concert of Bach, Brahms, and Bruckner tonight at 8:30 in Paine Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Munster Choir Arrives | 10/8/1957 | See Source »

...putting the doctors off with the excuse that she first had "to drive some friends to the airport," Margaret got behind the wheel of her flamingo-hued, air-conditroned 1957 Lincoln Capri, put Sheila Joy behind her in a white-and-brown Mercury station wagon, and led the bizarre caravan highballing out of Atlanta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Cash & Capital Gains | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

...caravan of eight vehicles circled to a stop in the morning fog that lay on the floor of the open-pit Minnesota iron mine. With swift precision, the coveralled men of the launching crew lowered an eight-foot metal capsule-an elongated vacuum bottle-to the crater floor and attached to it a gigantic (280 ft. high), pear-shaped polyethylene balloon. Within the capsule, a balding Air Force space surgeon named Dave Simons stirred impatiently in his tight little world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Space Pioneer | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

BRITAIN'S ROLLS-ROYCE is starting big sales drive into U.S. luxury-car market, plans to export 20% of its production to U.S. Rolls has nearly tripled its U.S. distributorships (to 59) in past 60 days, will soon kick off newspaper ad campaign, and send a caravan on tour of Southwest cities to push its $12,500 Bentley and $12,800 Silver Cloud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Sep. 2, 1957 | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

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