Word: indigo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Solitude," "Mood Indigo," "Sophisticated Lady," "It Don't Mean A Thing strongest factor in making a song a hit. (if it ain't got that swing)" are the most successful tunes among the 200 that the Duke's written. He isn't at all conceited about his success--he maintains that good publicity...
Over the jagged rim of the Atlas Mountains, which cut diagonally across the bulge of northwestern Africa, live the Tuaregs, fiercest of North African tribesmen. Known as the Blue Men, the Tuaregs swath their bodies in robes of cheap indigo-dyed cotton that dyes their skins a permanent blue color...
...week, eight hours after leaving Honolulu, having flown some 500 ft. over the sea at 140 m.p.h., the Pan American Clipper hit Kingman Reef right on the nose, lit on the light green waters of the lagoon, which, reported Capt. Musick, "stood out in sharp contrast to the dark indigo of the surrounding...
From Midland, Dow indirectly serves the washwoman (with caustic soda in soap), the tiremaker (with sulphur chloride used in vulcanizing rubber), the shoe maker (sodium sulphide for tanning), the cleaner (chloroform and carbon tetrachloride), the dyer (synthetic indigo), the rayon maker (acetic anhydride...
...colonies had no college, no scientific society, laboratory or library. He imported the first library and the first apparatus. His was the idea for the first chemical stock company. He established the first salt works in New London. He and his uncle were the first colonials to experiment with indigo manufacture. He started the American munitions industry in 1642 when he got an act through the General Court of Massachusetts ordering the production of such materials "as will perfect the making of gunpowder, the instrumental means that all nations lay hould on for their preservation. . . . Every plantation within the colony...