Word: colored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Henry Ford brought out Model T that year, and a year later said he would make nothing else but. He also said: "Any customer can have a car painted any color he wants, so long as it is black...
General McCoy explained that the chemical stain to be employed would remain indelible for about three days and then wear off. He refused to divulge the color of the stain, explaining that to do so before election day might cause unscrupulous party workers to stain the hands of opposition voters in advance and thus prevent them from voting...
...Joseph Pulitzer's New York World. He had some cartoons of life in a place called Hogan's Alley, of which the hero was a one-toothed, big-eared urchin. He thought it would be a good idea for the World to run his cartoons in color. The World thought so too. The urchin of Hogan's Alley appeared in a yellow nightgown. Thus was born the first colored comic strip...
...farms, sugar cane fields, blackamoor shacks. During the hurricane Lake Okeechobee burst the dikes. The rich land became a morass; in certain places water rose to the height of 10 feet. Hundreds, mostly Negroes, were drowned. Relief workers found the water filled with floating bodies, so decomposed that skin color was no longer determinable. One surviving family had lived on peanuts for three days. Throughout the whole region the air was noxious with fumes of decay. Immediate cremation of the dead was ordered. Quarantine of the entire district was imminent. It was a nauseous vale of murk and putrescence...
...treasures, carefully stored at Buckingham Palace, is a color film of Their Majesties' Coronation, in 1910. Since direct color cinemas could not be taken, at that time. every one of the tens of thousands of film photographs was colored by hand, by patient Germans...