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...Road was hardly more than a slot in the trees. But while it was still a rough scratch on the earth the Alcan Highway somehow became a smooth fact in the pub lic mind. Travel-starved citizens dreamed of the day when they, too, might wheel the family sedan through Dawson Creek and Whitehorse, past Kluane Lake and Tanana (pronounced Ta´na naw) Crossing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMUNICATIONS: The Road | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

ANNIE: "I thought his car was a sedan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Moppet in Politics | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

...SPANGLE: "Oh, the sedan belongs to Mrs. Flask. . . . Why, the Flasks have three (cars). Their son has to get to and from school ... 50 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Moppet in Politics | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

...Junior" Hollcar, 34, the fabulously wealthy, highly glossy Maharaja of Indore, had to surrender the C card for his light sedan; the OPA suspended it till a year from next December. Gas had been issued to him for use in Los Angeles, but he had driven to Reno with it-for a divorce and a new wife (TIME, July 19). The Maharaja will not be walking, however. He and his new wife have other cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 2, 1943 | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

...sastre. (We're marching to a disaster.)" Napoleon III, unable to sit a horse (because of bladder trouble), his face rouged (to conceal his deathly pallor from his troops), followed close behind General MacMahon's doomed army. When MacMahon blundered into a German trap at Sedan, the Emperor mounted a horse despite his pain, rode along the firing line for hours seeking death. It never found him. At last, "muttering that they must stop the guns, that they must cease firing, that there must be no more bloodshed," Napoleon III surrendered with 80,000 men. Two months later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bazaine and Retain | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

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