Word: buff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deceptively simple but the fruit of many scientific tests, the system, which is merchandised as Three Dimensional Seeing, consists of painting the central mass of a machine a special grey which Du Pont calls "Horizon," then picking out the working surfaces in "spotlight buff" or "spotlight green." The idea is to increase the worker's alert observance of what he is doing by making it effortless for him to see, in soft-not glaring-contrast, the object he is working on and the cutting or shaping parts of the machine...
This vast daily fountain of print is a national press. But it is also a hometown press and as such, for nine long years, it had been full to bursting with news of its own kinetic, photogenic mayor, Fiorello Henry ("Butch") LaGuardia. Whether as fire buff, civic scold, uplifter, ambulance chaser, hemisphere-defense expert, official greeter, fashion critic or hometown booster, Butch always has been copy. And the press has been good to him. Few politicians have ever received the continuous campaign support that New York's newspapers have bestowed on their bumptious little dictator and fiery reformer...
...saying, he flung open his gown to reveal beneath it the blue-&-buff uniform of the Continental Army. It was January 1776. A drum beat before the door; a bugle call rang through the church; and before the end of service 300 members of the congregation had enlisted, with their pastor as Colonel. To the close of the Revolution, Pastor John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg kept the field, rising to be a major general...
These drivers will receive a rectangular buff card allowing them unit stamps for 21 gallons of gas between now and June 30, or about three gallons a week. Owers may get their whole supply at one time or from...
...first time in 300 years, there is no regular ship service between New York City and New England ports. In 1937 the Fall River Line auctioned off its ships. Last December the boats of Eastern Steamship Line were requisitioned by the Government. Last Sunday the four-decked buff-funneled Arrow, last ship of the Colonial Line, ploughed down the Sound from Providence to New York, to follow its two sister ships (Comet & Meteor) into Government service...