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...country's gracious charm, the obvious opportunities for enterprising young men and the war's remoteness, the Tillett boys decided to stay. Soon they found a Russian backer, one Boris Litwin, who agreed to set them up in the family trade, the printing of designs on woolen fabrics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: The Abundant Life | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

...Nazi general presenting a half-frozen infantryman with a choice between the Iron Cross and a suit of woolen underwear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: G.I. Sketchbook | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

...nighties could be had, by rare good luck, for $50 a pair; cotton sheets required a priority granted only to newlyweds or families recently bombed out.) They preferred to spend coupons on the less alluring "woolies" which kept them warm in unheated offices and homes. For the same reason, woolen underwear was scarcer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Buying Binge | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

...Bolivia at Government invitation and expense. About 20% spoke Spanish and wore European dress. The rest spoke only the ancient Indian languages, Quechua and Aymara. They wore native clothes-wide, multicolored belts, bright ponchos. Some of the men wore flat hats like Catholic priests. Others had "lluchus" (knitted woolen helmets) against the biting winds of the altiplano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Inca Congress | 5/28/1945 | See Source »

...crowd one woman stood out, a tall blond woman in a grey-green woolen suit with a green alpine hat, woolen stockings, and heavy walking shoes. Despite the pack on her back, she walked erect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: At the Bridge | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

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