Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wild silverblu mink are exceedingly rare. One furrier tried for ten years to collect enough for a single jacket. Domestic breeders, in whose litters they occasionally turn up, had been experimenting with them since 1931. But progress was small because furriers considered them worth less freaks and ranchers were ignorant of Mendel's laws of heredity. Larry Moore, who understood Mendel, persuaded other ranchers that the laws could be used to breed silverblus and dollars. Last week one bundle of Moore's furs brought the auc tion's top prices, $265 a skin, netting him over...
...basic outergarment (field jacket and trousers) is windproof, waterproof, practically snagproof. If it holds up on test, it will be worn by U.S. soldiers everywhere except in the tropics...
...trousers and jacket, express...
Chilled by Italy's rains, the Eighth Army's General Sir Bernard Montgomery last week asked London for waterproofed pants and jacket. The package was made up, sent. Its custodian: the Bishop of Southwark (pronounced suth'-erk), beginning a tour of military stations. But ahead went a message to "Monty" from Lieut. General A. E. Nye, Vice Chief of the Imperial General Staff...
...social event of all turned out to be Churchill's birthday dinner (he was 69) at the British Embassy on Tuesday. Winnie had been planning it all day. He insisted on checking his party's place cards before dressing, then by 8:15 was back, impeccable, in jacket and black tie, nervously puffing a cigar and peering at his watch...