Word: oxcarts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was dancing in the streets in Barcelona last week, such a fiesta as not even the oldest Catalan could remember. By oxcart and on burro the peasants came in their red stockinet caps and baggy breeches. Leather-faced fishermen came up from Tarragona. All night long shouting crowds surged up & down under the huge plane trees of the ramblas to rigadoon round the statue of Christopher Columbus and back up the hill again. From a thousand staffs fluttered the five-barred red-&-yellow Catalonian flag. Trucks of Shell Oil Co. were hailed with delight...
...still morning in Managua, Nicaragua's capital. U. S. Marines in their tents at Campo de Marte mopped their brows and wondered idly at the exuberance with which the Managuan oxcart drivers were shouting, brandishing their goads, yelling insults at honking motorists this particular morning. (A native rumor of "Earthquake weather" had gone the rounds.) Downtown, women and children crowded through the plaster arches and narrow corridors of Managua's covered market to do their Holy Week shopping. At the old dirty-white adobe National Penitentiary Lieut.-Commander Hugo F. A. Baske, U. S. naval doctor, and Quartermaster...
...migration across the continent to the western ocean were three: 1) the Oregon trail to the Northwest; 2) the pioneer route west to the Missouri River and over the Rockies to Great Salt Lake; 3) from Leavenworth southwest by the Santa Fe trail to the southern Sierra. Where the oxcart went, Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown has decreed, there shall the commercial airplane first go-until men learn to travel through the air as safely and economically as they can move on earth. Result: migratory lines Nos. 2 & 3, plus a third "natural channel" across the flat south and lower...