Word: styles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eggs referendum November 7. Judge Welsh issued a temporary injunction, threw a bad scare into Ham & Eggers. Last week Judge Welsh agreed with Minor Pierce Long that Ham & Eggs and the Ray System resemble each other in some respects. But he found "no identity of language, phraseology or literary style, arrangement or form," dismissed Minor Pierce Long's suit. This decision left California no choice but to vote on giving $30 every Thursday to everybody over...
...Reputedly closer to Stalin than Molotov is A. A. Zhdanov, who as director of Russia's press, runs Pravda. To Zhdanov's Pravda went the honor of answering the riddle, but Pravda's editorial bore the unmistakable stamp of Stalin's heavyhanded, question-and-answer style so plainly that it unquestionably belonged with such Stalin masterpieces as his famed "Dizziness from Success" article on the collective farms. In some respects it suggested that such monumental successes as last week's had left Russians even dizzier...
...section 100 miles east-west behind the Saar Valley, along which the Allies were feeling for a soft spot, is one of the newest. Behind it valleys run into the Rhine from the North and East. But no military observer expected any immediate smashing of the Siegfried Stellung, 1939 style...
...lower part of the ship had all but disappeared under a coat of grey paint. Day or two later the white superstructure almost disappeared too. The Queen Mary was not slapping on war paint (battleship grey is several tones bluer and less muddy) but was introducing the latest style in camouflage, a solid, sooty, flat grey...
...result of their tests has been to replace old-style burlap and fishnet "flattops" for concealing big guns and trucks with new style drapes made of visinet, a light, durable paper compound. Fort Belvoir camoufleurs "dazzled" visinet drapes with green blotches to resemble vegetation, burnt sienna blotches to blend with Virginia clay soil. Solid color drapes they painted with a mixture of blue, yellow and red oil paints, producing a somewhat greener green than the usual olive drab of U. S. Army trucks. For solid brown drapes they mixed flat burnt umber and yellow ochre coldwater paints, made drapes look...