Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believe." he continued, "that the German nation has been the victim of these maneuvers of Imperialists and this has united us. I also believe you are sincere men and, when you find the yellow press trying to depreciate Mexico, you will tell the truth and proclaim our true moral material position, which is enough for us to be considered a respectable nation. You may be sure Germans will always receive protection of their interests but not privileges, as no privileges exist in Mexico; guarantees and protection exist. The German colony is not considered a foreign colony but as a brother...
Rumor had it (and the chiefly interested party-John Hertz-refused to make denial), that the Yellow Cab Manufacturing Co. - makers of the vivid yellow things that flit the streets of the nation's cities as their meters tick off fares-was to be merged with the General Motors Corp...
...Yellow Cab Manufacturing Co. controls the Yellow Coach Manufacturing Co., (makers of busses) and the Yellow Cab Co.'s in this country. The stock of the Yellow Cab Manufacturing Co. is worth about $28,000,000. The rumor as promulgated in Chicago had it that the merger was to include the omnibus company which controls the Chicago Motor Coach Co., operators of busses and the Fifth Avenue Coach Co. (Manhattan), also bus operators - in which case it would be a $60,000,000 affair and put General Motors into the operating as well as manufacturing business, taking control...
...transaction was expected to be carried out by an exchange of stock, 1 share of General Motors (price about $84) for 1½ to 2 shares of Yellow Cab Manufacturing (price about...
...Cuddle Up to Me and the delivery of brief but maudlin orations in behalf of race tolerance for the entertainment of an audience that could not but be conscious that, at another theatre only two doors away, leered, as it has for many a long year, a great yellow sign-the advertisement for Abie's Irish Rose...