Word: denims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Albert Einstein has added to his effort to unify theories of gravitational and electrical forces an attempt to solve U.S. Navy mathematico-physical problems (TIME, July 5). His aureole of white hair droops in summer's heat, a string upholds his cheap blue denim pants. Says he: "Here we cook with water." Interpreted a colleague: "We perform no miracles." A current item of Einsteiniana titillating the Institute: on one of his blackboards bearing a brain-taxing mathematical equation, the charwoman found the word "Erase." On another blackboard, marked "Do not erase," was blazoned the formula...