Word: paints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early one morning this week, New York's harbor was a well-planned bedlam of whistles, sirens and bells. Fireboats spouted their best special-occasion cascades. Amid this welcoming todo, the Cunarder Queen Elizabeth, spick & span in a new coat of red, white and black paint, nosed past the Statue of Liberty, headed up the Hudson. At 7:33 a.m., she tied up at Pier 90, ending her maiden commercial voyage across the North Atlantic. Henceforth the 1,031-ft., 83,673-ton Queen Elizabeth will sail weekly between New York and Southampton (the Queen Mary is still being...
...Brunswick's last service was a wartime job, just as her job is now a post-war job. As a Coast Guard barracks, the old hotel ago, had become a shabby, bare, dirty building, badly in need of new wiring and plumbing in places, as ell as a complete paint job. Kemtoned throughout in the interior, the rooms have been transformed by Harvard into green, yellow, and rose-colored suites; wiring was double-checked, new piping was installed; windows and doors were repaired, and the heating system was prepared for a New England winter...
Recently the Air Forces removed all paint from its P-80s. The tiniest chip or crack might endanger the plane by roughening the air flow. In a test flight, according to one group of experts, a gnat squashed against the leading edge of a P-80's wing. It stuck, and behind it a sound wave hammered perilous dimples in the skin...
Second and third prize went to a couple of propagandists in paint: second to Boston's perpetually angry young Jack Levine for his bitter Welcome Home (TIME, May 20), a mottled-looking general at a misty banquet; third to William Cropper's muddy, violent Don Quixote No. i, a starved white horse and black-armored rider careening past theatrical rocks...
...buckets, the U. S. Army was determinedly erecting a long, low, narrow group of buildings adjacent to their expanding Fort Devens. This clump was imaginatively tagged "Lovell General Hospital, North"--the "North" to distinguish it conveniently from a neighboring clump, Lovell General Hospital, South." Beyond a fresh coat of paint and a new, if inexplicable, numbering system, the exteriors of the erst-while hospital buildings haven't changed a whit since...