Word: modeles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because the Tilletts were fine craftsmen their textile designs became fashion's rage in Mexico. In no time at all they were in the chips. Both got married; Leslie to a girl from New York, Jim to lush, dark Nieves, model for some of Diego Rivera's best nudes...
...spanking new assembly plant in Detroit, where only two months ago G.M. had been building tanks, the corporation rolled out a glistening new Cadillac. It was the first car G.M.'s production lines have turned out since February 1942. It looked much the same as the 1942 model, although G.M. bragged that its sleek body contained 63 improvements...
...ringing affirmation of an old policy, the Generalissimo pledged the legalization of all political parties and the abolition of wartime restrictions on free press, speech and association. "Only thus," he declared, "can we tread the path of democracy traversed by the United States and Great Britain and establish a model democratic state in the Far East...
...Nazi Model 21 could stay submerged nine-tenths of the time. More amazing still: it achieved the speed of 18 knots under water-faster than it could travel on the surface...
Submarines normally travel only half as fast under water as on it. The Germans reversed this ratio by beefing up the electric batteries which power a submarine when submerged. Model 21 rarely had to surface because it used the "Schnorkel," an extendable air pipe which enables a submarine to recharge the batteries by diesel while submerged (TIME, Feb. 19). In one 45-day patrol, Model 21 U-boat spent all but four days under water. Only drawback: cooped-up living conditions. Some 116 of the formidable Model 21s were built, but minor defects kept them from going...