Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...play, the valiant medicos are frequently treated as very human men-ruthless, sharp-tongued, short-tempered. But in last week's production, they too often performed as though aware of the spotlight. Their actual heroism was a little blunted by touches of heroics, and Yellow Jack, by becoming more theatrical than it need be, seemed less dramatic than...
...until the late 1920s that an experimental animal, the rhesus monkey, was found susceptible to yellow fever...
...sales emphasis was on flowers. As usual, Philadelphia's W. Atlee Burpee Co., biggest mail-order seed house in the world (1946 gross: $5 million), made the biggest noise. It sent out three million catalogues to push the latest products of its California farm. Items: a yellow-pink snapdragon billed as the "first alldouble snapdragon ever grown from seed" and the "most sensational new flower for 1947"; a pink "alldouble" petunia called the "Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower" ($2 a packet...
...flower seeds, introduced a sweet pea called the Cuthbertson, notable for long stems and resistance to summer heat. Manhattan's Max Schling Seedsmen, Inc., the Tiffany of seed houses (it once got as much as $10 for a packet of delphinium seeds), offered a "Tyrian pink and yellow" dahlia at $15 for a single tuber...
...they were leveling off to a peacetime norm of slightly more than 50%. But vegetable growers, too, had plenty of novelties to choose from. Almost all seedsmen were featuring a new brownish-tinged lettuce called Bronze Beauty. Other attractions: a midget watermelon (Schling), a hybrid eggplant (Burpee), a yellow sweet pepper (Manhattan's Peter Henderson), a "giant tree tomato" (Vaughan's of Chicago...