Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Executive Order 9346 says that all contracts with the U.S. Government must contain a clause forbidding discrimination against workers because of race, color, creed or national origin. Last month, Comptroller General Lindsay C. Warren said the order was merely a "directive." Last week Franklin Roosevelt straightened out all misunderstandings: "I ... wish to make it perfectly clear that these provisions are mandatory...
...Smoke also is becoming a potent weapon. It is now extensively used as camouflage, sometimes in color, particularly to protect airfields and cities from bombers. Chemists are also experimenting with special types of smoke as a disrupter of tanks and vehicles-by gumming up their machinery...
...vast library of material on Wellington what Reader's Digest is to the accumulation of writing in U.S. magazines - an expert job of condensation and synthesis, inspired when its source materials are inspired, slowgoing when the mass of detail is incorporated at the expense of color and warmth. The Duke is also salted with the Tory aphorisms of a simple man who did not know that what he said was wisdom...
Gypsy Rose Lee walked off with a small Degas under her arm, too excited to wait for the rest of the auction. At the book sale particularly, connoisseurs held their seats as the prices skyrocketed. The Manet ellustrées published in 1929, containing Manet watercolor reproductions in color, went for $360-though its Paris price ten years ago was around $30. The collection was a market sensation from Derain to Dufy, from Rouault to Renoir. It was strongest in works by Crowninshield's old friends, French Painter André Dunoyer de Segonzac and French Sculptor Charles Despiau. Highest...
...building of tennis courts. Soon Chilapa consisted almost exclusively of tennis courts. Once a year Father made use of the courts in a tennis tournament. It was well organized. First Father intimidated the sporting-goods dealers by declaring their balls were too full of felt and the wrong color. He had the balls dyed robin's-egg blue for better visibility. On the day of the tournament he put on his white ducks and special hat (it had "large squares of rustproof screening on it for ventilation"), took over the jobs of checker, referee, games announcer, scorer. Since...