Word: chambray
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winter Stock. Henry I. Modell, president of the National Federation of Army and Navy Stores, appealed to Navy Secretary James Forrestal for more speed in releasing surplus merchandise. Modell had his eye on the Navy's estimated surplus of six million dungarees, nine million chambray shirts, 1.8 million utility shirts, 1.3 million suits of heavy underwear, 500,000 pairs of galoshes...
Grandmother Sophia Jane had raised eleven children. "She wore a stiffly starched white chambray bonnet, with a round crown buttoned on a narrow brim." When the cling-peach tree bloomed in her Kentucky garden, she mused: "I have planted five orchards in three States, and now I see only one tree in bloom." Her numerous descendants and her aged servants thought she was the most wonderful, most terrifyingly efficient person alive...