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...parents were blacker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 1, 1946 | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

...land of the African Rhino There lives a pure white albino. His parents are blacker than Navy tobaccer; How he can be white I'm damnfino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aphorists | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

...dead, struck down with dramatic suddenness before he could witness the victory he had charted and planned. Had he lived, 1945 would have been his year-the final flowering of American hope and strength which he had nurtured through black days made blacker by American indecision. But now he lay in a grave at Hyde Park, mourned by the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Bomb & the Man | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

Actually, WPB may be painting the picture blacker than it really is. Its dire predictions are based on the still unproved belief that there is little possibility of the U.S. getting tin from the rich mines of the Far East (Malaya, Burma, Siam, The Netherlands East Indies) for two years-the time it takes to build, ship and set up dredging machinery. Tin experts think that hidden stocks of tin and Jap machinery still may be found there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIN: The Last Shortage | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

There was no optimism in Germany. The Goebbels propagandists had learned that they could wring the last bitter ounce of resistance from the people by telling the truth about the enemy's power and the enemy's inroads-and by painting the enemy's intentions blacker than hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF GERMANY: The Pendulum Swings | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

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