Word: blue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dyeing and bleaching plants. The warehouse flew the American flag, as did most of Nijverdal that day. Managing Director Godfried van der Meulen pointed to a pile of cotton bales -most of them from New Orleans and Galveston. There were 350 of them, each with the red, white & blue shield of the U.S. and the inscription: "For European Recovery." "This isn't much," Van der Meulen said, "but six months ago we could have had a ball in here-though not a very cheerful...
...sides of Suchow's main street -a broad expanse of cobblestones bisected by a barren dirt parkway-yellow-uniformed soldiers half enveloped in a thin cloud of dust tramped in an endless stream. At the end of each straggling company marched a soldier with a triangular red or blue pennant; at the rear, donkeys, loaded with heavy machine guns, plodded stiff-legged over the rough street. Trucks piled with bundles and crates swirled by. "So many troops," said a fat, black-gowned merchant, standing in front of his shop; "suddenly they are marching. Where?" He shook his head...
...Captain MacWilliams banged into the C.N.A.C. ready room at Shanghai's Lunghua airport. He went up to a blue-suited Chinese at a long counter marked "Briefing." "You going to Suchow, eh?" said the Chinese. Then, in a positive tone, he added: "Suchow will fall in the near future...
...fire a shot, lift his fist, or even raise his soft voice in anger. Andrew Russell Pearson is a tall, tweedy, disarmingly mild-mannered fellow, with thinning light brown hair, a sparse mustache and earnest mien; he looks like a shy, quizzical cow college professor-except for his wary blue eyes. The mild manner camouflages a tough, diamond-hard core. And his casual clothes, his innocuously small-town look serve him well in Washington's lower echelons, where many of his tipsters work...
First, A.M.A.'s policy-making House of Delegates turned down a proposal for a nonprofit national health insurance company. The plan was recommended by the Blue Cross-Blue Shield Commissions, headed by Dr. Paul Ramsey Hawley. The idea was to issue policies covering hospital and medical bills on a nationwide scale, which would allow big businesses to sign one contract covering all employees, no matter where they work. The plan would give more people better medical care, and thus probably lessen agitation for compulsory insurance. But A.M.A. said no: the whole thing looked like socialism, it called...