Word: insignia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dressed in gleaming whites and wearing full insignia of rank, the 500 men were an impressive sight as they filed the banked rows of wooden benches. Then Rear Admiral Brown, a new kind of commencement speaker, spoke to this new kind of graduating class...
Wearing white uniforms and, for the first time, full insignia, more than 500 student officers of the Naval Training School, Indoctrination, will gather at Sanders Theatre this morning at 11 o'clock for their graduation ceremony...
...Moscow zoo. Jap and American diplomats played tennis in courts within a racket's throw of each other. The ballet performed every night. There was a superb performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride before an audience of airmen wearing their wing-&-propeller insignia, tank soldiers, "intellectuals" and factory hands munching black bread at intermission time...
...secondary metal would often do just as well. The Navy still insists upon top-grade primary aluminum for cable cases, fire-control boxes, etc. In copper, there is an actual surplus of secondary metal on the market, while painfully short virgin metal is still insisted upon for belts and insignia, laundry equipment, whistles, zippers...
Meanwhile copper continues so scarce that even the Army last week recognized the shortage, let WPB order curtailment of uniform insignia production in order to save perhaps 300 tons of copper a year (just over 1/100th of 1% of the U.S.'s expected copper supply this year...