Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Apparel Arts, a men's fashion magazine which began paying off soon after he started it in 1931, and Esquire, which, started in 1933, became a hit overnight. Esquire's Editor Arnold Gingrich packed it full of cheaply bought stories by big-name authors and flashy risque color cartoons, made it the greatest smoking-room magazine of all time. Circulation zoomed until it hit 625,000 in December 1937, and that issue carried 155 pages of advertising. Dave Smart and his co-publisher, William Hobart Weintraub, thought they could not miss...
Operations in Sperry Gyro's 11-story Brooklyn plant are romantically secretive. Sperry employes (all U. S. citizens) wear colored badges (a different color for each division), come and go under the vigilant eyes of watchmen. Except for a few top officials, no Sperry employe knows much about what is going on outside his own division...
...Blue," says the Barbarian Britannus in Shaw's Caesar & Cleopatra, "is the color worn by all Britons of good standing. In war we stain our bodies blue; so that though our enemies may strip us of our clothes and our lives, they cannot strip us of our respectability." Though Britons long since ceased painting themselves for battle, they were blue all over last week about their position on the Far Eastern Front of the War of Nerves. The Japanese, having stripped Far Eastern Britons of clothes and Face (Oriental for respectability), moved troops into position along the border...
...Anatomist Edward Allen Edwards of Harvard and Physicist Seibert Quimby Duntley of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, these theories were only skin-deep. Instead of the naked eye they used a spectrophotometer, a photoelectric device which analyzes skin color by measuring its capacity to reflect light at each separate wave length of the spectrum. Painstakingly they analyzed the entire skin surface of three white men, three white women, a Japanese, a Hindu, a Negro and a mulatto. Last week in one of the most thorough analyses of skin color ever published, Drs. Edwards and Duntley announced: 1) two pigments hitherto unknown...
...financial face. Last week Chinese officials in Chungking said that Soviet Russia would soon lend China 700,000,000 rubles ($140,000,000), that a preliminary loan of $30,000,000 had been settled. If the huge credit goes through, China's face will get some really healthy color in it. In return for U. S. S. R. cash, China would provide Russia with certain raw materials, would keep her northwestern door not only open but clearly marked WALK...