Word: dyes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's Vat-Craft Corp. displayed a machine which uses radioactive material to dye fabrics. The fabric is first run through a dye solution containing a harmless uranium compound, then dipped into a photo-sensitizing solution. In a light radiation chamber, the color is "developed" in much the same way as a photographic film, and the pigments become an integral part of the fabric...
Eighteen Heroes. Next day a sharp-eyed sergeant in a B-17 spotted the two life rafts tied together just off his plane's left wing. The B-17 circled to drop smoke bombs and green-dye markers, then flew in low to release a parachute-borne "Flying Dutchman" lifeboat. "It was a beautiful drop," said Grable. "Right in our laps." Seventy-nine hours after their B-29 went down, the bearded, haggard survivors were hoisted safely over the rail of the Canadian destroyer Haida...
Although things were relatively quiet last year, in 1947 the CRIMSON exposed an Indian plot to dye the Charles River green...
...Most of them were made of embroidery so delicate that the tiny stitches covering all the cloth looked like meshes of the finest weaving. Across them pranced birds and wildcats in reds, pinks, greens and yellows almost as fresh and brilliant as when they came from the dye vats. From their edges dripped cataracts of brightly colored fringe; the shirts had masses of fringe instead of sleeves. In life, the man who wore them must have delighted the eyes of his barbaric gods...
...Reader Battle's typical coat is divided roughly three ways: tariff charges are about $18.50, U.S. traders (who bear the costs of handling & merchandising) get $31.50. The remaining $50 goes to the English manufacturer, who can then pay his bills for imported wool and dye...