Word: yellow
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...their loneliness with a compound of elderberry wine, arsenic, strychnine and cyanide, followed by Christian burial in the cellar. In these obsequies they have been assisted by a potty nephew (John Alexander) who regards himself as Teddy Roosevelt, the cellar as the Panama Canal, the bodies as yellow-fever victims, and the stairway to the second floor as San Juan Hill...
Last week the workers' court met again, to hear reports on Lundquist and others. Real boss of A. M. U., gaunt, yellow-haired, bespectacled Hugo Lundquist, was once slated to be A. F. of L. organizer in the West Coast aircraft industry. The trial board's recommendation was that he also be found guilty of Communism. In a meeting as stormy as the first one, friends of Lundquist mustered enough votes to overturn the board's verdict. The court also decided that Editor Stone was guilty of a technical infraction in failing to bring his charges before...
Price pyramiding in the lumber industry was outstanding. Late in August, the Army's cantonment orders hit the lumber markets (particularly southern pine & Douglas fir). In two months, the price of yellow pine timbers jumped 27% and stayed there-although the Army's ordering was finished in one week. By December, each week brought a new markup in a different type or grade of lumber...
...like agitated turtles with their three .30-calibre machine guns, a heavier (.50-calibre) machine gun or a cannon jutting from ports and turrets. On the shoulders of their dungareed, helmeted gargoyles was the Army's newest emblem: a black tank tread, superimposed on a tricolored triangle of yellow (for cavalry), scarlet (for field artillery) and blue (for infantry). For tanks are only the armored hearts of a modern, mechanized division; each has in addition a regiment of motorized (truck-borne) infantry, another of motor-drawn artillery, and a profusion of ex-cavalry officers...
Flat-topped, lopsided but swift as a cruiser, an aircraft carrier at work is an ugly, color-splashed, noisy inferno. Launching her planes from the crowded flight deck, she throbs with the rumble of warming airplane engines. Hooded men in brilliant yellow, red, blue and green uniforms (to denote their functions) swiftly work the planes forward to take-off position. Every few seconds the roar of an engine in full throttle thunders through the echoing ship as another plane takes off. Only when the last bomber is in the air and the formations shrink into the sky does she settle...