Word: helmets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Diego the most marked difference detween popular brands of World Wars I and II is the tendency to abandon women, lean instead towards insignia such as the tin-helmeted bulldogs symbolic of the Marine Corps. A grinning death's head with an aviator's flight helmet surmounted by a black cat is popular among service flyers. In San Francisco last week sailors were still asking for Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, but social-security numbers are more popular...
Reclamation. At Fort Belvoir, Va., an Army supply sergeant found diapers on a laundry list, learned that one soldier carried them 1) to clean his rifle, 2) to polish his mess kit, 3) to dust his shoes, 4) to pad the inside of his helmet...
...hundred-and-seventy-pound Reichs Marshal Hermann Göring was 50 years old last week. From all over Europe presents poured in. They filled three halls in his palatial Karinhall, and included a long-buried Roman helmet found in Milan after a recent excavation by an R.A.F. bomb...
...whose body is tattooed from clavicle to toe with black cats, snakes and strawberries. He is official executioner for the State of Mississippi, pulls the switches of the only portable electric chair in the world: a new $4,000 contraption on a truck with portable generator, chair, helmet, straps and electrodes. Last week Jimmy and his driver drove their silver-painted exterminator to the Pike County jail. Just before dawn Jimmy dispatched his 14th "client" - one Sam Porter who had slashed a throat too deeply and who, as he sat in the new chair, admonished "all young people to stay...
...Brunswick, N.J. The three defendants were acquitted of the Lovers' Lane murder of the sister's husband, the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall, and his paramour, Mrs. Eleanor Mills. "Willie," a large, pudgy, fuzzy-haired, simple-minded bachelor who liked to wear a fireman's helmet and hang around the firehouse, was counted on by the prosecution to spoil the defense's case when he testified, but proved to be the most lucid of the witnesses. His death probably closed the unsolved case for good; Brother Henry died...