Word: paints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some party. The good old Chicago Teamsters' Joint Council had gotten two special trains, all Pullman and air-conditioned, to send its 188 delegates to the Teamsters' convention in San Francisco. Each train had a special bar car-a freight car, fixed up inside with bright paint and a sort of juke box. In one car alone there were 352 cases of Blatz beer, about $25 worth of pretzels and popcorn and potato chips, cases and cases of coke and soda...
This behind-bars art boom was started by 20 young proletarian artists, who call themselves "the Wedge." The group is dedicated to teaching painting to people who otherwise would not know an easel from a weasel. Formed six years ago-when most of its members were still art students-the Wedgies have inspired some 600 proselytes (in & out of jail). Bricklayers, factory workers and carpenters by day, Wedge members invade the prisons at night, with armloads of free paint and canvas. For their work in provincial jails and small villages, the art missionaries dip into the group kitty, which...
Luxury Ferry. Grey and ghostlike in her war paint and swifter than any but the fastest warships (an average speed: 30 knots), the Queen Mary whipped around the Cape of Good Hope and up to Suez, turned up again & again in Boston and in Manhattan's North River, was sighted by Allied sailormen in ports and anchorages around the world. By the end of her war service she had carried 765,000 Allied troops to & from battle areas...
...black and white paint glistened on her freeboard and superstructure. Furniture that had gathered dust in warehouses from Sydney to New York was polished and reinstalled in her cabins, saloons and lounges. Decks and rails that had been pitted with the initials of some of the 765,000 troops the Queen had carried in wartime were scraped smooth once more. Spick & span in new uniforms, many of her old crewmen were back to serve again under jovial Captain Cyril Gordon Illingworth, the Queen Mary's chief officer...
...from liking the movie, the Shanghai barbers roared their indignation. Telegrams of protest from barbers in Hangchow and Hankow flooded in. Some 500 barbers stormed the Shanghai theater, pulled the signs down, smeared the advertisements with paint. "They did this," said the dignified newspaper Ta Kung Pao, "to show their disapproval...