Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Virginia-born Viscountess Astor, M.P., a shorthaired, winter jacket sounded like heaven. To Magistrate Harold McKenna at Bow Street Police Court, it sounded like a violation of rationing regulations. Lady Astor had written a friend in the U.S., asking him to bring the jacket, plus silk stockings, evening shoes, a dress collar and a white skirt...
...well-dressed ship-abandoner should leave without a life jacket. Chambliss prefers the inflatable type to kapok. Worn on the person, the rubber jacket is always available and may be deflated for faster swimming...
...excuse can be offered. For those of us who were not on duty before coming to the School or for those of us who have not looked through the Blue-jacket's Manual, there was a movie the first week here at Soldiers Field. In that movie the forms of salute were illustrated as well as the officer's proper response to each. Failure to notice and return military courtesies is the mark either of a very green or a very indifferent officer...
...dressed in one to three sets of long wool underwear, field jacket, parka, sweaters, woolen cap beneath the helmet, two or more pairs of heavy wool socks, shoe pacs or leather boots and raincoats. Yet we always seemed to be cold. More than once we had to sleep on the wet, cold earth in our clothes. That was pretty uncomfortable, but looking at the suffering infantrymen and the supply carriers who had to take loads up steep mountains and the litter carriers who had to.bear the wounded down, we could not feel very...
...Canadian sailors are now equipped with a new life jacket which covers the lower part of the trunk and gives its wearer better protection against burns and concussion injuries from exploding shells and depth charges in the water. Stowed in the jacket are several new gadgets to aid rescue: a yellow cap (to make its wearer more conspicuous), an electric lamp, a length of rope, a pair of stout loops for rescuers to grab. Another new item of Canadian lifeboat equipment is a supply of heavy socks impregnated with vaseline, to protect sailors from "immersion foot," a circulatory disorder that...