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...earth, with the single exception of Mongolia, has ordered the Jews into banishment. Readers first meet the race in Road of Ages as it is wandering across Hungary and through the passes of the Carpathians, some twelve-months distant in time from the allotted refuge in the Gobi Desert. There are banking Jews from the Paris Bourse, London's City, the New York Stock Exchange; pork-eating Jews from Germany; strictly kosher Jews from Galicia and Palestine; liberal Jews from the New York of Temple Emanu-El; Socialist Jews from the locals of the Second International; Communist Jews from...
...this vast throng moves eastward- some walking, some riding in oxcarts, some speeding on motorcycles, some sitting back in fast limousines-various stories unfold. The banking Jews plot to make the new state which is to rise in the Gobi into a capitalist nation. The Communist Jews insist that all property be pooled. The Socialist Jews do not know what they want. And the liberal Jews are occasionally wounded in trying to keep the Socialists and the Communists from killing each other before they have even reached the new Promised Land. Mr. Nathan seems to be protesting that there...
...years in the museum's storehouses and preparation rooms, the skeleton was hung from the ceiling by seven strands of airplane cable. Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews had to mount a ladder to point out the close-packed whalebone strainer (see cut). Now famed for spectacular expeditions in the Gobi and elsewhere, bald Dr. Andrews recalled that his 1907 expedition to Long Island to reclaim the whale's bones was his first & worst...
Texas. One hundred million years old were the dinosaur eggs found in the Gobi Desert by Roy Chapman Andrews. They were the earliest eggs known to Science until the return of Harvard's latest expedition from the Permian Red Beds of north central Texas. From that ancient ground Diggers Theodore White and Llewellyn Price plucked a rust-colored fossil egg, three inches long, which they estimated to be 225,000,000 years old. All evidence indicated that the egg was laid by Ophiacodon, a six-foot reptile with ponderous head and meagre limbs. Last week Harvard announced that the world...
...magic. Great quantities of sand settle on the cold plain like rain on a marshy flat. The Simoon is gone! Oaths from native drivers bring struggling beasts to their feet. Loads are replaced, straps tightened. Hearts beat high again with hope. Endless journey across the white sands of the Gobi is resumed . . . and the Vagabond travels to Chinese 11 to hear Mr. Gardner in his charming and inimitable manner recount dramatically life in the Far East as few have been privileged to know...