Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...June 1936 these items struck FORTUNE'S staff as noteworthy about the new $35 million, 81,235-ton Cunarder Queen Mary. Through the prewar years, the Queen Mary carried Britain's flag in the race of the Atlantic superliners. In August 1938 she set an Atlantic round-trip speed record (31.65 knots). Last week, after four years of wartime anonymity, the Queen Mary returned to the headlines...
...crying need of the Republicans is a new set of emotional symbols ... as in the grand days when concepts of freedom, the Union and the flag were confidently claimed as their own peculiar possessions...
...Krauss of the Wooster, Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station. The rest were more variations on the theme of "Turn the New Deal Rascals Out," with an irresponsible overworking of the terrible word famine. Perhaps to reassure themselves, the entire body repeated the pledge of allegiance to the flag at the opening of each session, five times in two days...
...planes the Japs bombed on Hickam Field at Pearl Harbor wore an identifying emblem that had marked U.S. warplanes since World War I, and was as familiar to air-minded Americans as the national flag: a white star superimposed on a circular blue background and carrying a red disc in its center...
...Government decreed the type of sun and sunrays to be used on the Argentine flag...