Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Built by ex-Dictator General Gerardo Machado, Cuba's Huey Long, the $20 million Capitolio has been called a monument to graft. The yellow diamond, en circled by gold from pen points which had signed contracts for the building and the central highway, had been donated by the contractors and the workers. Before that, the bauble is said to have belonged successively to an Austrian nobleman, an Eng lish collector, a Paris jeweler. Skeptics claimed it was a fake. Either way, it had been a satisfactory zero milestone to measure off Cuba's central highway...
...begun its rehabilitation task by distributing hoes, plows and draft horses to destitute peasants of two continents. UNRRA's biggest rehabilitation project was progressing at breakneck speed in China, where U.S. Seabees and 150,000 Chinese laborers last week worked day & night to repair the war-torn Yellow River dyke. If UNRRA succeeds in restoring the dyke before June, some 7,500,000 bushels of grain will be saved from the river's ravaging floods...
...Atlantic City conference would not decide the point, but UNRRA officials were acutely conscious of it. Caustic critics clamored for its demise; but whatever UNRRA's faults, it was clear that some agency was needed to carry out its functions. By the time the green turns into yellow, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Rumania should be able to produce most of their own food. But Greece, Italy, Austria and many another country in Europe and Asia will need relief for years to come...
...China, it would be ching huan pu chieh, the time between the green and the yellow. In Poland, it would be na przednowku, the time-before the new. Soon, peasants in many hungry lands would have finished their spring planting; dreaded months of waiting were ahead. For until the seed bore fruit and the crop was in, how would the peasants and their city brethren live...
Last week, on a bet, he set out to prove that he could "compose" 50 songs in one twelve-hour day. He turned up in the studio of San Antonio's Station WOAI at 8 a.m., in a white Stetson, a green-and-yellow embroidered shirt, and hand-tooled boots. He brought with him a stack of pulp magazines, for inspiration. To make it look harder, he had a policeman chain him to a piano...