Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three times he was put away in Sing Sing, to the widespread dismay of widows & orphans. But the clippings faded yellow and crumbly in newspaper morgues; the detectives who arrested him and the judges who sentenced him faded and crumbled too. In Brooklyn's once-tough, now tame Red Hook district, Steve Dutton has recently lived in a frame house with his two dogs, three cats (two of them 22 years old), and a 21 -ft. snake, preserved in formaldehyde, which he said he caught in Florida...
Most members of I Am are female, middle-aged, and well-to-do, according to Miller. They travel around the country in large yellow Chryslers, which serve the double function of comfortable conveyances and religious observance. For believers in I Am are convinced that yellow and white are good colors, while purple is a wicked one. It seems that every person has an invisible white light hanging constantly over him, which is repelled by a purple ray generated by his evil and impure thoughts. Apparently the ownership of a yellow Chrysler helps you to live cleanly...
When the radium-green diamonds, are heated, it is conjectured, the gas molecules bounces from the crevices and the diamond becomes white again. In the cyclotron-green diamonds the heating supposedly simply rearranges the gas particles in such a way as to impart the yellow-brown color. No way has yet been found of dispersing or changing the yellow-brown effect, Dr. Berman said...
...tank's commander, rangy, red-haired Lieut. Colonel Frank R. Williams of the Armored Force, was sitting on a 14-inch-square leather seat, bolted to the iron deck, alongside the 75-mm. gun. His head, protected by a yellow leather crash helmet, was pressed against an oblong sponge-rubber rim which framed the eyepiece of an 18-in. telescopic gun sight. Whenever his target centered in the cross hairs of the sight, he touched an electric firing key, watched a 15-lb. high-explosive projectile rip through a framework target tank...
...branches of the automobile industry, manufacture and sale of taxicabs is the hardest to make a go of. General Motors tried it for a while (through its subsidiary Yellow Truck & Coach), found that it had to operate taxis to be sure of a market in Manhattan, finally began withdrawing in 1934 after it had to repossess two big fleets at a loss of $1,000,000. Next year it sold its Manhattan operating company (Terminal) at another $733,000 loss. Soon Checker Cab Manufacturing Co. was left the only important manufacturer in the field. But even Checker, with a virtual...