Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brooklyn's Public School No. 12 first became aware of him when a fire ax came flying out of the principal's office. After the ax came a boy about 5 ft. tall, a stranger in P.S. 12. He wore a peaked cap, a black leather jacket, and yellow trousers with blue stripes down the seams. When a crowd began to gather, the boy took to his heels, led a chase through the corridors, turned a corner and vanished...
Monty let them sit, another ten minutes, while he dressed for the occasion. He donned a freshly pressed battle jacket, with the marshal's baton woven on the shoulder tabs. A tiny gold watch chain stretched from pocket to pocket, under his decoration ribbons. The familiar black beret was at the usual jaunty angle. Monty strolled slowly to the tent where the Germans waited. As he passed the assembled war correspondents he said softly: "This is a very big moment...
Items : ¶ The bans on the making of dozens of civilian items (e.g., telephones, fire apparatus, sunglasses) were lifted as WPB dropped 41 more of its production control orders. In a few months, almost a third of some 733 controls which now strait-jacket industry will be dropped. Only enough controls will be kept to make sure that the armed services get what they need...
...also indignant when they heard that another of the four, Jewish Chaplain Alexander Goode, worked, ministered, sacrificed and prayed till death, alongside Protestant and Catholic leaders. I would say to the Rev. Broady of Findlay, Ohio that the boy to whom Methodist Chaplain George L. Fox gave his life jacket was also a Unitarian who renounces the Divinity of Christ...
...hoping that N.A.M., at least, will soon stop sulking and join them. It is the same reason that induced them to put their heads together. Unless business and labor resolve their quarrels, they are keenly aware that the Federal Government might step in with controls which would strait-jacket both...