Word: khakis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...particularly among airmen, that he found the most recrimination and distrust. One reason: the Army's exaggerated reports on the role of Army bombers in the Battle of Midway (Baldwin: "The Navy's carriers did the job"). Baldwin saw Navy, Marine and Army men in almost identical khaki, working "in close harmony in combat areas," concluded: "There is no question that one uniform and one fighting service with a common tradition and a common interest are the answer to our defense problems. ... A separate air force would probably only serve to add friction...
Burbank's Lockheed Air Terminal, with its buildings painted a wartime khaki, was drab under a cloudy sky when American Airlines' Captain Charles F. Pedley lifted his Douglas twin-motored liner off for the 4:30 p.m. flight to New York. He climbed gradually to skim the jagged, purple San Jacinto Mountains. Forty minutes after the takeoff, approaching Palm Springs, he was flying at 9,000 in clear sunshine. There were numerous planes in the air; Pilot Pedley was straight on his course...
Loyally the khaki-clad audience roared: "Yes!" Unwisely Conductor Stokowski asked: "How many say no?" Following an old U.S. custom, a lone dissenter piped...
Joining him on the reviewing stand for the marchers in khaki will be General Sherman Miles of the First Service Command and probably Air Corps General Jones, who will be here for the Statistical School graduation in the morning...
...gone too far afield to dramatize the war, he has been the first to realize that its most compelling-and most communicable-story lies right under every one's nose. He has simply set down the ubiquitous story of the U.S. today-a kind of Everyman in khaki. He has told of young Quizz West (William Prince), a farm boy who leaves his girl (Mary Rolfe) and his family to become a soldier. Quizz goes to training camp and then to war, and, on a tiny island in the Pacific, is part of a gallant, malaria-ridden remnant that...