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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strapless brassiere, "constructed around plastic cups that lift from under the breasts and extrude them. Distortion point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Path of Progress | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...time, a woman begged him to hear her confession then & there. (The Pope did, in a secluded corner of the room.) But the strain of the war years has told on him. He finds these long public audiences tiring, especially notices the fatigue after hours of gently helping to lift visitors from their knees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Pope's Day | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

Only in a sailplane or a glider does a man actually fly. A sailplane pilot needs and wants only the power that thermals (masses of hot air forming at the earth's surface and rising, to give lift) and air currents provide. With this power, sailplanes have soared to an altitude of almost 23,000 feet, and a Russian woman, who holds the international distance record, sailed non-stop for 465 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 28, 1947 | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...Trick. In Seattle, Duke, a hunting dog who for years had ridden in the trunk of Frank Delappe's old car, watched his master lift the hood of a 1947 Studebaker, jumped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 28, 1947 | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

Dynamos & Dollars. When Miguel Aléman talks industrialization, his brown eyes glow. He wants to lift the submerged 16 of Mexico's 22 millions and draw them into the new life that has flowed out of the Revolution. These millions are now unable to raise a cash crop to sell in the cities, and unable to buy the city's products. More than 1,115,100 of them walk barefoot, more than 4,500,000 have only huaraches. There is only one radio set for every 70, only one bed for every four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Good Friend | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

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