Word: mercedes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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On Union Oil Co.'s La Merced No. 17, which had been abandoned for three years, Lane-Wells's first test resulted in a greater daily flow than the well had ever produced. This summer, on the same site, the company made its 100,000th perforation, rejuvenated the...
First she gets milk from one street vendor, tortillas from another. Then she sets out for the market-La Merced, San Juan, Portales or San Lucas. In the days before inflation, she wandered happily up & down the aisles, stopping to buy 1.50 pesos of meat, 16 centavos of rice, 5...
But it is not only the big metropolitan papers that have helped season TIME'S editorial people. The head of one of our foreign news bureaus got his first training in journalism on the Martin, Tenn., Weakly County Press & Martin Mail (weekly circulation 2,240), writing about crops being...
Wehrmacht officers learned months ago that their swagger Mercedés-Benz staff cars were death traps in occupied Russian territory: guerrilla snipers gave special attention to these chariots of the mighty. In dangerous territory Nazi officers prudently changed to the cramped obscurity of flivver Volkswagen. But Gestapo officials persisted...
Last week a tale leaked from Germany through London which must have given the Wehrmacht a sardonic laugh. In their glittering Mercedés, two top-notch Gestapomen were found bullet-riddled far behind the battle line.