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...Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg explained to a House Appropriations subcommittee why the Air Force prefers suspenders: "A battle jacket with belted trousers is an unsightly appearing garment. Every time you lean over your shirt sticks out in back ..." Not only are airmen permitted suspenders, but "if I catch any without them, I will give them a piece of my mind...
...silken clad, so that he was scalded breast and thigh, shaken terrified kindled deathlost uncaring thinking for this I will be killed and at the same time that it was worth the dying, and boldly he freed his hands from about her waist and pushing aside her one garment caressed her bare flesh roughly almost brutally as though she were a peasant girl...
...minimum level of employment for about ten-years. Nearly all Southern states borrowed some variation of this technique, or offered special tax reductions to help new factories get going. Favorite targets are industries which employ lots of people, e.g., the shoe factories (Arkansas got eleven in three years), and garment plants (heaviest in Tennessee...
...Charles Pomerantz, 54, an immigrant from Poland who did well in Manhattan's garment industry, switched to the exterminating business because he thought it offered more chance for public service. In 1946, a new disease, Rickettsialpox, broke out in Queens, and Pomerantz tracked down the carrier-a tiny mite carried by mice. In his honor, a new species of flea, found in the Philippines, has now been named Stivalius pomerantzi...
...means as dead as it looks. It has some 9,000,000 on its rolls while the C.I.O. claims only 6,000,000, probably has no more than 4,500,000. A.F.L. treasuries are bulging-the Teamsters Union alone has a balance of $26 million, the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union has $38 million and the Brotherhood of Electrical Workers has $45 million. At the convention, the A.F.L. embarked on a revolutionary policy of compulsory contributions to a political education fund...