Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scurry page boys, their grey liveries initialed in silver with the suggestive letters, BIZ. The big table around which biggest business is done by the Governors of Banks of England, France, Germany Italy, Japan and a U. S. group headed by J.P. Morgan & Co. is draped in grey, the color of money bags. On this grey table lay fresh and crisp last week the second annual report of BIZ or Bank für Internationalen Zahlungsausgleich, famed in English as BIS (Bank for International Settlements), in French as Bri (Banque des Reglements International-). When he stood up to report, Manhattan...
...exclaimed when it was pointed out that he had lost $250,000 on other press ventures. " 'All right, goddam it,' we say, 'we'll show them we can do it!'" The solution, he believed, lay in adaptation of the design of the fastest magazine color presses...
...chief technical difficulties were: to dry four layers of ink in a fraction of a second; to find color pigments cheap enough to be practicable; to correct "register" at high speed. While Mr. Wood experimented, Col. McCormick was not idle. In an effort to make his pressmen color-conscious he had them experiment with the old fashioned makeready color processes until they could turn out fairly presentable two-and three-color advertisements. Last week's crude red frontpage cartoon was the last step in the Tribune's color education before graduating to the complicated four-color Wood presses...
Pressbuilder Wood was last week prepared to say that not only had he surmounted all "insurmountable" difficulties but that he had found them easier than he anticipated. His promise that he could make the color "deadline" (press time) as late as the black-&-white deadline will be fulfilled. The first Wood color unit will be installed for Chicago's Tribune in September...
...yellow giant whom all, even mules and bulls, respect. It is rumored that he and his relatives the Batkins, who live up river in the Hehonee swamps, are of Indian descent. It is an Indian that Luther would like to be so that his daughter Sis could break the color line, go off to government school at the Tohannock Indian reservation. Semmes Maiden, a young lawyer from Battleburg, the State capital, capitalizes on this desire of Luther's, persuades him and his relatives to put in their claims as Hehonee Indians, along with the Tohannocks, who are agitating...