Word: dyeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rabaul has the legendary South Seas beauty of a very blue harbor, of casuarina and golden-fruited paupau trees, of silk-swathed Chinese and darkly graceful natives who dye their woolly hair in vivid colors and call a shower bath "washwash on top." During World War I, when part of New Guinea was taken over from Ger many, the Australians told them about the change of sovereignty as follows: "Me been talk with you now, now you give three cheers belongina new feller master. No more um Kaiser. God save um King...
Sterling, three of its subsidiaries* and its two top officers signed the decree. They plead nolo contendere to charges of restricting markets by agreement with I. G. Farbenindustrie, the German Dye Trust. They agreed to pay fines totaling $26,000 and to break all contractual relations with the Farben. They also agreed never again to promise any other drug manufacturer not to compete in foreign markets...
General Aniline is a desirable property. It is the second largest U.S. manufacturer of photographic equipment (after Eastman), and is tied for third place with American Cyanamid (after Allied Chemical and Du Pont) in the making of dye-stuffs. Its earnings-$4,106,000 last year -are bolstered with defense business; among other things it is the largest U.S. producer of khaki dyes...
...formed under the auspices of I. G. Farbenindustrie, the great German dye trust, and it has prospered with the help of Farben skills and patents. Two years ago General Aniline-until then known as American I. G. Chemical Corp. -reorganized, and has since denied or minimized any Nazi affiliations. But it cannot seem to convince the U.S. Government that its ownership is in trustworthy hands...
...some bacteria do start growing, they are easily seen, for the infected spot becomes moist and soft. It is cut away, and a new coat of dye is sprayed on. The treatment is far more painstaking than the tannic-acid method. But aniline-dyed patients seldom die of infections, even if two-thirds of their skin is burned away...