Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...watch as if expecting someone. I muttered a few English cuss words such as all Italians have learned. They took it for granted I couldn't understand Italian and continued their talk. Barbi said: 'The way Councilor Gallo went on about red being blood's color. Such nonsense! He knows nothing else to say. But black is the fascist color and I told him so at the meeting.' What Barbi said was true; I had seen it in the minutes...
...Illustrator Norman Rockwell roundly endorsed the suggestion of Massachusetts' Representative Edith Nourse Rogers that U.S. paper money be printed in different colors as an aid in distinguishing one denomination from another. The Treasury's response was guarded. Said one official: "It's questionable whether there aren't more color-blind people in this country than there are illiterates...
...Refugees from Lyallpur in West Punjab say that so many Sikhs and Hindus were murdered and their bodies thrown into the canal that the canal actually had a pinkish color for a day after. Moslem refugees told how Sikhs stripped and paraded Moslem women through the streets, raped them and then killed them. British correspondents reported having seen dead, naked women lying about villages of the Amritsar district...
...season's cascade of antitrust suits, Attorney General Thomas Campbell Clark had called for jail sentences for those who "conspire to maintain or increase present prices." Ever since, the antitrust division's 160 lawyers have been working overtime filing charges against leaders of the rubber, brake-lining, color film and oil industries (TIME, Sept. 1). All were accused of conspiracy to fix prices...
...dissolution of alleged price-fixing agreements and competitive restraints among 1) eight major rubber companies and their Rubber Manufacturers Association; 2) twenty manufacturers of brake linings and clutch facings and their Brake Lining Manufacturers Association; 3) the Eastman Kodak Co. and Technicolor Inc., charged with monopolizing the processing of color film. This week, it impaneled a federal grand jury in Washington to investigate alleged price-fixing by oil companies...