Word: colors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since all the services have up to now maintained the strictest color line in regard to assignments, this switch in policy creates an extremely delicate situation. If the re-assignment of colored troops is bungled, countless unpleasant incidents will occur inside the National Military Establishment. Such failures would give ammunition to the many opponents of racial equality, in and out of the services...
Beautiful Promise. But, wrote Ansermet, Stravinsky and Twelve-Toner Arnold Schönberg had added two bands of color to the spectrum of western music, "ultraviolet and infra-red." Among other hopefuls, "Alban Berg [TIME, May 31] has written pages of overwhelming beauty. The hour of Berg will come . . . Bartok is a symbol of our times. He is one of those who search groaningly, even though he may appear to be smiling. His last works are the most beautiful promise that modern music has offered...
...years; the Senate has a bill before it now to kill the Federal oleo tax. It has been a hard and unusual fight. A recent House measure wanted to give oleo an attractive deep Sunkist orange hue. An eminent lobbyist has stated that yellow is "butter's own color," and that if margarine makers wanted a color they could damn well dye their stuff green. The oleo-makers retaliated to this with a barrage of bright yellow advertisements. One southerner fought heroically for butter until he found that his constituents were growing the chief ingredients of margarine, upon which discovery...
...cowmen have been gypping the consumer long enough. Their color argument is ridiculous, for the butter people color their own stuff half the year. And they really have little to worry about. An English newspaper went around feeding butter and margarine to blindfolded housewives and found that most of the women preferred butter anyway. A lot of people would benefit from untaxed oleo; it is about time yellow margarine got a friendly pat from the government...
...stream of allegations. This will convince the majority of readers--the ones who don't stop to look twice--by sheer sustained invective if nothing else. It will give the Legion and the Klan, which don't worry about facts, new material for their screaming accusations. It can color the thinking of the intelligent to a point where the quarter-truths get by as half-truths, where the attitude of every newspaper reader is affected by something he doesn't believe...