Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...race angle out of all proportion. It is true that Mexican and Negro boys wear zoot suits out on the coast perhaps more than others. But to a soldier who has been taken from his home and put in the Army, the sight of young loafers of any race, color, creed, religion or color of hair loafing around in ridiculous clothes that cost $75 to $85 per suit is enough to make them...
...does this State glorify the native-born workers who are in reality nothing short of tenant farmers so wonderfully portrayed in Tobacco Road? It is these very workers who are the target of Southern discrimination because of color and breeding. Why, therefore, does the State of North Carolina picture these products of feudal serfdom as glorious, happy Americans...
Looking toward '44. Politically, the Governors' Conference was an all-G.O.P. show-since 1) outside the national Administration, the color of U.S. politics is strongly Republican, 2) the Democrats already know who their '44 Presidential candidate will be. (Of the States with more than 20 electoral votes, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio and California have Republican Governors; only Texas has a Democrat...
...plastic trumpet for Army buglers. The Army Quartermaster Corps has ordered 10,000. Plastic trumpets (made of tenite) sound as loudly as brass ones, are truer to pitch because they do not require warming up. The plastic instruments are also easier to blow, featherweight, can be made in any color, require no polishing, can be easily mended. Further, they do not reflect light, hence cannot reveal positions to the enemy. Last week Quartermaster Corps officials looked forward to a plastic age, from trumpets to tubas, in Army bands...
...smallest breeze, methods and machines had to be devised to handle them. A special plant was designed to make the wire (20,000 sq. yd. daily) and feed the feathers (25 lb. to every 100 sq. yd.) on to it. (The feathered mesh is sprayed with a neutral color, ready for pattern painting...