Word: caps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farmer, wearing a long-billed hunting cap and corduroy pants stuffed into five-buckle arctics, shook the rain from his shoulders, entered the Nanty Glo State Bank across the street. In Suchman's jewelry store, a few doors from the bank, a miner's wife looked over the slim stock of watches, hunting a gift for her soldier son. The pillar of smoke that came from the main stack of the Heisley mine (one of the three within the town's limits) fused into the rain, flattened, hung over the landscape in a grey pall. The hands...
...Queen paid a visit to the U.S. Air Forces and it began to shower, quiet, grizzled Spaatz wrapped his raincoat around Her Majesty. Another man might have preserved the coat as a relic. Spaatz wears it all the time. It is as torn and stained as his old pancake cap with the ripped-out lining...
...year in Australia. Just twelve months ago, clothed in the tragic glory of Bataan, he had come down from the skies to take command of United Nations forces in the Southwest Pacific. Australia would never forget the sight of him, striding confidently in his washed-khaki jacket, gold-braided cap and bamboo swagger stick, lifting Aussie hopes. His coming changed the country. His year changed...
...return the services demanded (with indications that they would get the request) that WPB show its good faith by making two new appointments: 1) tough, trusted Julius Albert ("Cap") Krug, head of the WPB power section, to run the WPB requirements committee and program adjustment; 2) Sherrod E. Skinner to be in charge of WPB's industry divisions. Skinner has been in the Army's S.O.S. four months, was an executive of General Motors' Oldsmobile...
Covering Up. On the East Coast the services seem more conservative. In Norfolk, Tattooist Arthur B. ("Cap'n Dan") Coleman, who has had the same shop for 25 years, finds sailors still wanting girls covered with flags; eagles; anchors with fouled lines. Baltimore's Norwegian Tattooist Einar ("Tattoo Bill") Kluge said last week: "Business isn't as good as it was in the last war, but it's good. . . . Women run to initials, roses and butterflies on the arm and leg, stand up to it better than men, who sometimes faint. As for the Marines...