Word: khakis
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...blacks are expected soon to have as many men in khaki as they had in World War I, when their top strength...
...enduring hold on the U.S. hosiery trade. Last summer, in spite of technology and economics. Japan's silk trade with the U.S. was still lively. Then it bumped smack into U.S. foreign policy. The silk crisis, like every other great factor in Japanese life, fell hard into the khaki laps of Japan's Army statesmen...
...best when a nation supports a military program of its own free will; there is no better was to squelch the opposition's cries of "misleading propaganda." If the government's aims in this war have been properly stated, there is no need to put education in khaki. The morale of college students, Faculty members, and the country at large will be a lot higher when there is no destruction of academic freedom to undermine the government's program...
Problems relating to entertainment, lodging, transportation, and recruiting of soldiers who want to visit Harvard are in the hands of a committee headed by Mrs. Arthur Meier Schlesinger. Students will probably amuse their guests in khaki by taking them to football games and dances, but not to movies, which are shown to the satiation point in the army camps...
...Camp Wolters, near Mineral Wells, Tex. (pop. 6,303), where he was nicknamed "Bushface" (because of the mustache he took to camp), he still kept his homebody habits. Few weeks ago Mineral Wells's Chamber of Commerce, proud of its friendliness to men in khaki, heard with chagrin that Private Bushface Krause, alone among his fellows, had never thought it worth-while to spend 10?, ride three miles to town...