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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leaving Berlin after four years, General Lucius D. Clay, commander of the U.S. occupation forces, got a parting gift from Berlin's city fathers: they voted to change the name of the street he lived on from Im Dol to Claystrasse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 23, 1949 | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Their machines had ground to a stop because there was no carbon black, the toughening agent which comprises about 30% of a tire's rubber carcass and tread. The supply from the U.S. had been cut because of Britain's shortage of dol lars. "For days," remembered one grimy worker, Leslie Joseph Pridmore, last week, "our machines stood silent and we were idle. Without 'black' we couldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: America's Answer | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

Skeptics wondered if it was entirely fortuitous that the well-publicized gag came along just as radio's summer dol drums were setting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Golden Silence | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

Coach Art Cochran of the visitors will start Captain Howie Redgate at center, flanked by forwards Dick Van Gundy and Nick Dol Ninno. Two Seniors. Marshall snyder, who have recently beaton out Junior Al Shapiro for their positions, will open the game at guard...

Author: By A.edward Rowse, | Title: FIVE TO MEET JUMBOS TODAY | 2/4/1942 | See Source »

...bluish portrait of a massive, flabby, seminude, varicose-veined prostitute primping herself before a tumbledown Victorian table with a crumpled dol lar bill on it, caused a storm of protest several years ago when it was exhibited. But art connoisseurs had to admit that its lugubrious, shadowy surfaces, which shone like crushed tinfoil, were unparalleled in modern painting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lavender & Old Bottles | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

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