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...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...
This was the man who stood last week on his ancestral acres in Carroll County. In his sun-faded blue workshirt and khaki trousers, his feet planted firmly in the manure-padded earth of his own barnyard, he looked out across the clover field in which hogs rooted and snuffled, across to the yellow sheen of his ripe wheat, on to the horizon. He saw a farther horizon than Carroll County's-a horizon bounded by war but boundless with the promise of a better world. What he thought about now was not the rain clouds that might hurt...
...just six months later, the arid newness is gone. Grass grows beside the streets, palm and pine spot the once dusty table land. The 200 cadets who stream in each month from the odds & ends of civilian life see a brisk hustle of officers and trainees in their khaki service uniforms or bright whites. That first look shows them that they have come into a new way of living...
...morning of June 6, when the Monterey entered the sunny harbor of Papeete, Tahiti, General Brunot appeared on deck in the blue uniform of France. An antiquated French airplane droned over the ship and dipped its wings. At the dock Joan Fontaine saw General Brunot received by two khaki-clad companies of native troops. A band broke the tropic stillness with the Marseillaise and Joan Fontaine, thinking of the France that was, could not help crying...
...will stick to mellow and glidable music. Book-sick men will also be lured by plenty of food and drinks plus the usual starlight activities. Thus while ignorant armies clash by night, the Spread stands out as the last chance in College to forget that coming year in khaki...