Word: 50th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Model No. 50. De Strobl used no model for the woman in the Budapest monument ("She came directly from my stomach, as we say in Hungary"), but the Russian below her was modeled from a Red Army trooper-the 50th model that Voroshilov had sent around for approval...
...their highways for four miracle Fords which, it was said, went 60 miles per gallon of gasoline, could also be run by atomic energy, and (as some heard it) sprouted wings at the touch of a button. The cars had escaped somehow from a secret research lab. Answering his 50th phone call, Ford's North Eastern Regional Manager Charles J. Seyffer said wearily: "It's the heat." ¶Three hundred members of "Tall Clubs" (men must be 6 ft. 2 in. or over, women 5 ft. 10 in.), met in Chicago, filed their annual pleas for longer Pullman...
...order of the 80th Congress, postal authorities prepared designs of 15 new stamp issues memorializing, among other things, the U.S. poultry industry, the 50th anniversary of the incorporation of New York City, volunteer firemen and the five "civilized" Indian tribes of Oklahoma...
...ornate frames, the Edwardian ladies & gentlemen looked just as the most fashionable artists of their day had found them-rich, well-bred, proud, and usually a trifle bored. These proper people, in proper painting, hung last week in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum celebrating New York City's 50th anniversary as an incorporated big city (TIME, June...
...affair was Paris' biggest and smartest since the liberation. In the refined splendor of the Hotel Ritz garden last week, some 1,500 diplomats and millionaires and their ladies gathered to sip champagne and nibble pastries in honor of the hotel's 50th birthday. None contributed more glitteringly to the glitter than a white-haired little woman who greeted them at the entrance in fluent French, English or Spanish. She was 81-year-old Marie Louise ("Mimi") Ritz, widow of the man who founded the hotel-and thereby made his name a synonym for ultra-fashionable...