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Oliver Lyttelton, President of the Board of Trade and Production Minister, rose elegantly. Rubber, he said, would be released for nipples, but "we cannot adopt the same policy for soothers [pacifiers]." The Minister explained: "Soothers are a means of deception to which, in view of the imminence of the general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Out of the Mouths of Babes | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

This homely incident was a prelude to Britain's first important step in reconversion. Last week, the Rt. Hon. Oliver Lyttelton, businesslike new head of the Production Ministry and Board of Trade in the new Churchill Cabinet, allocated 36 more Government war factories for civilian production-a total of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hustle by Britain | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

Ruthless Efficiency. Oliver Lyttelton last week faced at least part of this issue. As he swept like a new broom into the Board of Trade, he declared: "If we had to live mainly on the indigenous resources of this country we should perhaps be able to support 15 million and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hustle by Britain | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

Paced by tanks, 38th Division infantrymen were storming a narrow gorge, its 500-ft. walls honeycombed with Japanese caves, leading to Wawa Dam east of Manila. The tanks stalled in the bouldered terrain. So they called up lanky Charles R. Oliver Jr., who a year ago was a Wortham, Tex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Shootin' Texan | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

Charlie moved nearer the dam, firing again & again: He saw four Jap huts half hidden by boulders on a hill across the river. He fired four rounds, demolished four huts. At the very end Charlie Oliver spoiled his record. He saw a small cave far up the opposite cliff, fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Shootin' Texan | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

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