Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Later white & yellow soldiers mingled peaceably, but without fraternizing, as they sorted out their dead. Japanese corpses were cremated on the spot in bonfires. The Russians dragged away disabled tanks as well as dead. The casualties...
Going much of the time on foot, the U. S. officer traversed 2,000 miles with Chinese soldiers. On one trip in northern Honan he crossed the Japanese-patrolled Yellow River with a small guerrilla band. Estimating that at least 600,000 Chinese soldiers operated in the occupied areas, Captain Carlson declared the Japanese control only garrisoned towns, railway lines, main highways...
Chief Pilot Verne W. Harshman, naval aviator on maneuvers off the coast of Colombia in 1931, was forced down by bad weather, kept afloat on his CO2-filled raft five days. Only trouble he encountered was sharks, which were attracted by the raft's color (orange-yellow for high visibility). Result: the navy changed the color of life-rafts' bottoms to olive drab...
Meanwhile, the most graphic dispatch of the week from a very meagrely reported war came from the province of Hopeh, a fertile plain lying almost entirely north of the Yellow River, 550 miles from the main theatre of operations...
Simon Lake's first submarine was a 14-foot, flat-bottomed contraption, built of yellow pine and looking vaguely like a flatiron mounted on wheels. It had a compressed-air reservoir built of an old soda-fountain tank, and motive power for both its propeller and wheels was supplied by a hand-driven crank. When the redheaded, hot-tempered Simon Lake and his cousin Bart paddled it down the Shrewsbury River in New Jersey in 1894, Bart opened the valves, the submarine sank, a stream of water squirted in through a neglected bolthole and hit him in the back...