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...comes out in the wash. One can learn a great deal about people by a casual look at the weekly laundry. If the man of the house is a laborer or railroad man, there's usually a pair or two of denim overalls and a matching jumper. If there are children in the family there is evidence of them on the clothesline. I understand that in New England old-fashioned longies appear on the lines later in the season. But it is feminine things hanging in the back yards which reveal sadly,--no dispassionately,--what has happened to our once...
Most of the prisoners at McClellan are Bavarians, blond, stocky and young. Except for four doctors, a dentist and a tall, hatchet-faced pharmacist, there are no officers among them. Dressed in faded blue denim P.W. uniforms or, occasionally, the patched-up uniforms which they had on when they were captured, they looked arrogant, meaty, well...
...Nazi spirit was strong everywhere. In a recreation hall was an art exhibit put up for the occasion. A denim-clad curator goose-stepped visitors in, goose-stepped them back to the door, giving them the Nazi salute. The pictures on show included charcoal drawings of hefty nudes, portraits of young, haughty Nazi soldiers (Adolf Hitler was not on display), sardonic drawings of Alabama shanty homes, scenes of the African battlefield, sketches of their stockade...
...need, said OCD, for all the equipment it had delivered or requisitioned: 4,419,450 arm bands, 2,700,000 helmets, 5,000,000 gas masks, 100,000 firemen's coats, 72,000 12-to-14-qt. buckets, 2,258,000 fire extinguishers, 100,000 pairs of blue-denim pants, umpty-umpty-ump first-aid kits, nozzles, pumping units, stretcher litters, shovels, folding cots...
Latest example of the deal's workings is blue denim. Because of the great quantity of tough cheap blue denim needed to outfit war workers, many a U.S. store shelf has been swept bare. But the Army had six months' supply on hand...