Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...round to aid them, sometimes it veered against them, drove the flames across firebreaks to lick at the nearest roofs. The gas mains burst in Mill Valley. The water supply dribbled out. Two pump engines were hustled to Cascade Canyon to drain an abandoned reservoir. Refugees clogged the roads. Red Cross stations sprang up to treat the injured, house the homeless...
...Geneva. He caused a mild panic among the staid members of the Secretariat. Little used to entertaining pompous monarchs who travel as does Egypt's Fuad with a small army of retainers, Secretariat members thought only in the nick of time to provide a throne for the dusky, red-fezzed potentate. Acting Secretary General J. A. M. C. Avenol, flustered in the absence of his chief, suave, assured Sir Eric Drummond, madly canvassed Geneva's second-hand shops until he found a massive chair heavy with carvings and bright red plush into which the king of Egypt would...
...onetime engine-wiper, from $10,000 to $25,000, because of extra duties as minister in charge of unemployment. Prominent Laborites agitated last week to increase also the salaries of the Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer, at present barely sufficient to pay the expenses of their official red brick residences on Downing Street...
...Ives colored television apparatus contains a battery of 24 cells. A filter or "mash" of orange-red gelatin allows only reddish colors to affect certain cells. A yellow-green filter controls other cells, and a greenish-blue filter controls the balance. Three separate electrical transmission channels must be used. A red gelatin filter makes the bright red neon light the same shade as the receiving cell registered. The yellow-green-sensitized waves go to an argon lamp which glows through a green filter. The greenish-blue-sensitized waves affect another argon lamp with, in this case, a blue filter. Mirrors...
...other Rascoe jobs have been: associate editor of McCall's, literary editor of the New York Tribune (now Herald Tribune}. editor of Johnson Features, Inc., literary-critic of Arts & Decorations, editor of The Bookman. Last week the latest Rascoe position was announced-associate editor of Plain Talk, red-covered monthly (circulation 25,700) edited by Geoffrey Dell ("G. D.") Eaton in somewhat the manner of Henry Louis Mencken's kraut-liveried American Mercury (circulation...