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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might still be able to pick out vestiges of the 1,000-year-old Romanesque towers and Gothic spires that once thrust up over the city. If so, they were probably the last men who would ever see them. For the architectural treasures of the city, which Henry Adams (Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres) once called a "Romanesque Mecca," seemed doomed. Among them were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Caen | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

Shortly after, he opened up two new pools in Victoria and Coke Counties, Texas. By last week he was drilling for oil, or preparing to, in 18 states. Confidently he announced that his first oil "province," the one near Roundup, Mont., and his Texas wells will pay off more than 10-to-1 for the cash sunk in dry holes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: King of Wildcatters | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

...NOTLEDGE Custer, Mont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 5, 1944 | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

Round Six. In Lewistown, Mont., Maynard Stapleton painted a sixth blue stripe around his clapboard house, to tally the sixth Nazi plane shot down by his former neighbor, A.A.F. Lieut. Robert Welden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 5, 1944 | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

Gilpin, a rich Quaker's dynamic son, was educated in England, at the University of Pennsylvania and West Point. He was a soldier, lawyer, Indian fighter, editor, land-speculator, explorer (with Freémont), rancher and briefly Governor of the Territory of Colorado. He developed his geopolitical theories in the course of a long, active career helping expand U.S. frontiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gilpin, Geopolitician | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

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