Word: redness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seizure of these Red ships constituted new affronts direct to Germany's big, silent partner, and made good the promise of Minister of Economic Warfare Ronald Cross to the House of Commons that due watch would be kept on Germany's economic back door through Asia (TIME, March...
...satisfaction, despite the latter's oath that the cargoes were entirely for Soviet consumption, not reexport to Germany, and his legal point that Russia's ships are State-owned, hence not subject to seizure. Presently it was announced that British officials at Hong Kong had turned both Red freighters over to their allies, the French, who were taking them to a port in Indo-China for further scrutiny. Report was that the officers & crew of the Selenga, refusing to submit, were placed under arrest. It seemed a cinch that neither Russia nor Germany would soon receive those particular...
...Infra-red radiation tests show that dehydrated castor oil is a close chemical neighbor of tung oil, and, like tung oil, it yields a desirable, minutely wrinkled film when it dries. Some tung is produced in the U. S., but the vast bulk is still imported from the troubled Orient. Chemist John Carl Weaver of Sherwin-Williams Co. declared last week that dehydrated castor oil should help relieve the U. S. of dependence on foreign supplies not only of tung oil but of perilla and linseed oils as well...
...NOTAM" (Notice to Airmen), they rapped out. "Heartiest congratulations to all . . . an entire year of air line safety . . . one of the outstanding achievements in the history of transportation. (Signed) Robert Hinckley, Chairman CAA. . . ." To 208 green-and-red-lit air liners then droning their way across the U. S.'s 35,900 miles of scheduled airways the message was relayed by radio. At breakfast after dawn passengers had copies, countersigned by their pilots, on their breakfast trays...
German-born Harry Hans Straus wears the red ribbon of the Legion of Honor on his lapel, like most successful French businessmen. He got it in 1937 for building the French cigaret-paper industry big enough to take over the business Austria had had before World War I. By the time Harry Straus was dubbed Chevalier, some 26 French paper plants were furnishing 75% of the paper used in U. S.-made cigarets. Seeing another world war ahead. Paperman Straus was then already deep in plans to move a big piece of France's new industry west again...