Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...railed against Andrew Volstead and his dry law, once concocted home brew in a Harlem drugstore in a fruitless attempt to get himself arrested. During a speech on high prices, he waved a lamb chop at his congressional colleagues. He helped write the Norris-LaGuardia Act, which banned "yellow-dog" labor contracts and strikebreaking by injunction...
...King spent an hour and a half at "Woodside," the twelve-acre estate on Spring Street where he lived for nine years. The big, yellow brick house is now owned by the W. L. Mackenzie King Woodside Foundation, which hopes some day to make it a national shrine. Meantime it is rented to Polish-born Tony Kielbasa, a tanner. Mr. King pointed to the spot where he and his brother had once pitched their tent and to a bank that had once been covered with violets. He talked of his mother's bed of lilies-of-the-valley...
Helicopter Cab. The Yellow Cab Co. of Cleveland got the first franchise for a regular scheduled helicopter taxi service. (Several charter taxi services are already operating.) Yellow Cab's projected helicopter runs will be between Cleveland Municipal Airport, downtown Cleveland and two suburban areas...
...recognizable even to those who knew it well. It seemed as though the entire Cosmetics Trust of the U.S.S.R. had gone to work, covering Moscow's wrinkled face with layers of magic makeup. Almost overnight the Bolshoi Theater turned a shade of blushing pink; other buildings were newly yellow, light green and blue. Reported a visitor: "It looks like an explosion in a paint factory...
...Zoltan Pfeiffer, a lawyer evicted from the Smallholders, as the only anti-Communist politician of consequence in Hungary, and the Red goon squads went enthusiastically to work on Pfeiffer's Independence Party. They broke up a meeting at Szentes, 80 miles southeast of Budapest, by throwing eggs, vegetables, yellow paint and bricks. A newsman was deafened, temporarily at least, when struck on the ear by a cantaloupe...