Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jamaica the words "white" and "colored" are not used, color distinctions are not recognized. It is a Jamaican nightmare that Lend-Lease will finally put the island under U.S. control, which would introduce the hated U.S. color line...
...inflexible ceilings on their prices on the other, found themselves squeezed out of profits. Result: they largely quit civilian production-and "upgraded" the rest. Half of production went into military orders. The other half became "higher-quality" merchandise-sometimes a matter of adding as little as an extra color to a fabric-where the spread between costs and selling prices nets a profit...
...bizarre biography of Negro Fire Chief George Bright, who retired to a p?/cch of greasewood, yuccas, sagebrush and cacti, where he built a short-lived Negro Utopia. In his concrete palace, the windows of each room had panes of a different color. Bright liked to gaze at his wife through the "sensual tropical green...
...saddest sight is to see crosseyed, disillusioned Poonsters trying to find their building; but kind hearted Adams House men have been of infinite help. Still, no one as yet has tipped the color blind Lampoon editors off about the dastardly deed and they have been only making matters worse by getting their hands and feet in the creamy...
...that account alone is top-notch. It could even be a very good story if the moral, Beauty is a Force Within You, weren't pointed too obviously and too often. The second is also about a Force Within You, but this is a Force of a different color, an evil one. This Force appears as the mirror image of Edward G. Robinson and by its continual wise-cracking turns the story into a parody in spite of the intentions of the writer and the efforts of the actor. The third story, by avoiding the obvious and the general...