Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, Franklin I continued aboard the Houston down the west coast of Mexico, battling yellow-tails, striped pargo, bluejacks, broomtailed groupers, losing a big shark. At the Equator, the usual elaborate horseplay for "pollywogs" who had never crossed it before was conducted by the "shellbacks." Chief pollywog was Secretary Stephen Early, the Press's sole contact with the President. Chief shellback: Franklin Roosevelt...
Last week the augurs of Manhattan's Wall and Broad Streets, weary of watching for omens on ticker tapes, turned to their windows to see the propitious flight of a rare and happily named bird-a Bird of Paradise. The brilliant yellow, green, and red-brown bird had escaped from Paramount Aquarium Inc. (a downtown animal, bird and fish importing concern), winged its way over the financial district to 15 Broad Street, was finally captured at high noon...
Most conspicuous of these, in the daily news if not in person, was long-faced Harry Lloyd Hopkins, working in shirt-sleeves at his plebeian office on the top (ninth) floor of an old yellow-brick structure which houses the Works Progress Administration. Because more than 8,000,000 U. S. persons look to WPA for their toil-won bread, and because $1,425,000,000 is a lot of Government money to have to spend in an election year, Harry Hopkins has inevitably become regarded as a prime mover-and prime target-on the national political scene. To himself...
...portion abroad for needed foreign exchange. Thus last year, while the nation on paper produced enough for home use, Italy in fact suffered a wheat shortage. Bakers, unable to purchase sufficient wheat flour, eked out their dough with substitutes like corn flour, bean flour, ground lentils or ground ceci, yellow, bean-like pellets. The Government legalized this adulteration up to 20% but bakers took advantage of the practice, began turning out queer tasting, colored loaves only 50% wheat flour. Public grumbling grew, scores were clapped into prison for their protests and finally Il Duce stepped in, called his Cereals Corporation...
...Yellow Jack (Robert Montgomery, Lewis Stone, Henry Hull, Charles Coburn, Virginia Bruce; TIME...