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Dates: during 1940-1949
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And who was the leader of the new party that thus threatened old Dev? He was a tall, dapper, 43-year-old lawyer who had spent his life in the Republican movement, bombing British armored cars while still a boy, commanding a brigade of the Irish Republican Army while still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EIRE: The Phoenix | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

The $300 million credit loan from the U.S. Export-Import Bank was not particularly disturbing, nor were the new restrictions (a limit of $150 a year) on pleasure travel in the U.S. Restrictions on imports from the U.S. were harder to take. Finance Minister Douglas Charles Abbott said they would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: New Rules, New Roads | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

The trip's most somber moment came when Mr. King visited the Canadian military cemetery at Bergen op Zoom.* It was dark when he got there, in a cavalcade of cars that slithered over slippery roads, but automobile headlights lit up the rows of 1,800 white crosses. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Sentimental Journey | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

But Powel Crosley had made a fairly pretentious start in carmaking. He began making cars in June of 1946 in two plants -in Cincinnati, Ohio and Marion, Ind. By the end of his first year he had turned out 16,637 cars, for a gross of $12,073,721 and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Growing Midget | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

Antifreeze Squeeze. Cold weather caught the U.S. short of antifreeze. In many cities, under-the-counter caches (at over listed price) were the only source of supply. One reason for the shortage: production remained the same, while the number of cars increased. Another reason: chemical manufacturers are using more methanol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Facts & Figures, Nov. 24, 1947 | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

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