Celebrate the Century, 1940's: "World War II Transforms America"

Part of a souvenir sheet of 15 stamps

Issue date: 18^th February 1999

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33 c  (#c)	Jackie Robinson, players of baseball team "Dodgers". The name comes from "trolley dodger" that was the streetcar line criss-crossing Brooklyn at the end of 19th Century. The baseball team was formed in 1884 and was known as the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers
33 c  (#d)	Image (partial) of U.S. President Harry S. Truman from a photograph of President Truman standing on the platform of a train’s observation car holding the Chicago Tribune newspaper with headline “Dewey Defeats Truman” after he (Truman) had actually defeated Thomas E. Dewey in the 1948 election
33 c  (#n)	Promotional poster for the Broadway hit "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams on 3rd December 1947