Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Calles reputedly ordered from the Pullman Co. last week a new Presidential Train. Cost, $500,000. Color, yellow...
...Yellow fever, scourge of Panama, no longer is endemic in the Americas, though last April there was an outbreak in northern Brazil. The Board sent Dr. Henry Beeuwkes, its yellow fever director, to Nigeria, West Africa, to experiment along the Gold Coast...
...Road to Mandalay (Lon Chaney). Good old-fashioned explosives cannot be downed. If you take an evil man and bring him upon his daughter on the point of going bad herself there is bound to be drama. Set this story in a Singapore dive, with yellow and brown wickedness all around and the atmosphere is perfect. Particularly when Lon Chaney plays the bad man with an unsightly cataract on one eye. You may not believe but you cannot resist...
Drivurself. By establishing the Hertz Drivurself Corp.( subsidiary of G. M. C.'s Yellow Truck & Coach Mfg. Co.) to rent motors to the public, G. M. C. becomes an enormous (and profitmaking) consumer of its own cars and accessories. The idea deserves the $10,000,000 investment...
That Simon Bolivar, long-legged, unruly young Venezuelan aristocrat, after dismaying his provincial tutors, went to study in Madrid, married at 18, returned to Venezuela where his bride died of yellow fever. He foreswore domestic life and plunged-after another visit to Napoleon-dominated Europe and a trip through the U. S.-into the serious business of liberating Central America from the tyranny of its Spanish monarch...