Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...uniforms of the two organizations are similar in style except for the headgear; the Fitas wear a stiff red cloth band about three inches wide on the head, leaving the hair on top exposed. Also, the Fitas wear a white "lavalava" for general duty, and one of dark blue color for dress. They wear a red sash around the waist with both the white and blue lavalavas...
...fuel gas are automatically circulated, picking up lithium vapor from a small, renewable cartridge about the size of a tin cup, which lasts for eight hours. As long as the exhaust gas burns with the bright scarlet flame characteristic of the spectrum of lithium salts, any workman not color-blind can see that the furnace is working properly...
...Indian, he says, far from becoming extinct, is "our most rapidly growing minority." Indians in the U.S. and Alaska number 394,280, are increasing at the rate of "1% a year compared with 0.7% for the whole population." "It was with the Indian that our patterns of 'color reaction' and 'color behavior' were first conditioned" and became so set that Americans rarely consider that "a large part of [our] race psychology" derives from their ancestors' experiences with Indians on the ever-shifting frontier...
Still graver, says McWilliams, is the effect of color discrimination on U.S. friends and allies in Asia, the Pacific, South America. "It is unthinkable," said the Manila Times in 1930, protesting a proposed exclusion bill, "that the American flag should fly over the Philippines while the citizens who look to it for defense and support are barred from entering the United States." McWilliams thinks that "there are many evidences of a growing sense of solidarity between American Negroes and the peoples of India." Says McWilliams: the Good Neighbor policy can hardly be taken seriously by South Americans resentful of North...
...prescribed summer uniform means breaking regulations. It says here distinctly that the short sleeve shall extend two thirds of the way from elbow to wrist. As for the suits, the primary rule is that the skirt should be of the same material as the jacket and MATCHING IN COLOR. Radcliffe supply officers, garbed in what was once reserve blue, then on second thought dyed a deeper shade, hope to avoid billets in the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts wherein the standard for the WAVES' Navy blue is kept. We are still awaiting the arrival of whites in "Palm Beach, tropical...