Word: colors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gathered around him, to help him draw up emergency decree laws, a collection of brilliant World War heroes. Among the seven new men in the Cabinet were at least ten wounds, three Croix de Guerre, over a dozen citations for bravery. The men were all of Big Business color, but of technical shade: practical, juristic, masters of concrete planning rather than grandiose theorizing. Most important move aside from the shelving of Georges Bonnet was the creation of a Ministry of Armaments, and the selection of efficient, inordinately hardworking, high strung, impulsive Raoul Dautry, 59, to head it. He reorganized France...
Down in Virginia's cedar-dotted Fort Belvoir, where the U. S. Army runs its only experimental camouflage laboratory, camoufleurs study how to outwit stereopticon, infrared and color photography from airplanes, try to solve such apparently insoluble problems as what to do when tanks are concealed in deep shadow and the sun goes behind a cloud; how to camouflage a truck, when an aerial camera can pick up a tireprint on the grass "almost from the stratosphere." They also experiment with dazzle v. solid color camouflage...
...been to replace old-style burlap and fishnet "flattops" for concealing big guns and trucks with new style drapes made of visinet, a light, durable paper compound. Fort Belvoir camoufleurs "dazzled" visinet drapes with green blotches to resemble vegetation, burnt sienna blotches to blend with Virginia clay soil. Solid color drapes they painted with a mixture of blue, yellow and red oil paints, producing a somewhat greener green than the usual olive drab of U. S. Army trucks. For solid brown drapes they mixed flat burnt umber and yellow ochre coldwater paints, made drapes look like big chocolate bars...
Fritz Kuhn, No. 1 U. S. Nazi, walked into his Manhattan office at 9 a.m. the morning German troops walked into Poland, immediately changed his map of Europe to make all western Poland the map color of Germany. Said Kuhn: "It will be all over in a few days...
...work done on the Southern California Art Project. Under the direction of S. (for Stanton) MacDonald-Wright,* the project has concentrated on outdoor murals befitting the climate. On view were striking murals in many mediums, notably mosaic, petrachrome (dyed concrete in which are mixed little stones of varied color), and terra cotta slabs in low relief (an early Mesopotamian medium in which no serious work has been done for 2,500 years...