Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the phone rang and a voice told him to go to another phone booth. There he found a typed note and a public locker key taped under the seat. In the locker at Portland's Union Station, he found a third note ordering him to hire a Yellow Cab (with no two-way radio) and drive on Highway 99E the 120 miles to Eugene, at 25 m.p.h. When a car behind flashed its lights three times, he was to throw out the suitcase and drive on five miles before turning back. If no headlight flashed...
...pharmaceutical firms* are now producing Salk vaccine or hurrying to get into production. The vaccine works on a principle that has already provided protection against such traditional plagues as smallpox and yellow fever. When they attack human beings or other mammals, most viruses stimulate the invaded system to manufacture tiny protein particles "called antibodies. If the system under assault does not have enough of these antibodies, or cannot manufacture them fast enough, the victim may die, or, with polio, suffer permanent crippling. Polio virus is unusual in that there are three main types. All can cause paralysis, but one type...
Cost-of-living pay boosts are as important in 1955 employment contracts as were yellow-dog agreements in 1905. They even influence minimum wage laws. If Secretary of Labor James Mitchell wins congressional favor for his $.90 an hour minimum wage, the increase would just offset the inflation during the five years since $.75 became standard. In fact, booming prices have washed out every minimum wage gain since the original Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which set wages at $.40 an hour...
...praised him as "consistently correct," later made him boss of Manchuria, probably at Russian instigation, since the Russians were then in occupation. There Kao Kang learned the bag-of-gold technique, only the gold was Russian, and not just yellow metal, but iron, steel and machinery. Kao built Manchuria into a great industrial empire. But when he began issuing his own currency, making separate trade treaties with his Russian pals, and boasting that while China was depressed his Manchuria was booming, the idea began to get around that tough Kao was more consistent than correct. In 1953 Mao pulled...
...series Suzuki next turned into an angry black scrawl, faded into heavy yellow and black (Soul Fading), then dramatically changed into a thick impasto of blues, orange, black, with lines scratched out by Ray's palette knife. Believing that "the artist, like physicists, must use the abstract to get to the concrete," Ray's next two portraits of Suzuki were abstractions of opposing lines. No. 7 stopped most viewers in their tracks. It was a startling blank canvas, washed in with cloudy browns. But Taoist Lecturer Dr. C. Y. Chang, on hand for the opening, recognized it immediately...