Word: kit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been a day when a bank director who enriched himself while serving with a bank was looked on by the depositors with the contempt with which the intelligent public now regards a mayor who has reaped similar benefits in office. America should obviously have some prize in its patronage kit, wholly non-political in its nature, to give to a business leader who leads in business, not in income-tax returns. A college degree to such a noble fellow is paltry and weak; a peerage appears to be the most practical prize...
...Senate committee was told that on May 15 Richard B. Bevier had come to Mr. Howe with an introductory letter from Basil O'Connor, the President's one-time law partner. After inspecting Mr. Bevier's toilet kits (comb, toothbrush, soap, toothpaste, toothbrush holder, brush. soap box, mirror, shaving cream, razor, razor blades), Secretary Howe asked Budget Director Douglas to come over and have a look at them. Director Douglas was busy, sent a subordinate named Lowery. Instructing Lowery to investigate the cost and quality of the product as compared with the kits the Army was already...
...ready to take all the blame. He had signed the contract with persuasive Mr. Bevier May 15. No, he had not asked for competitive bids. No, he had not investigated the product-not until two weeks later. It was also brought out that although Mr. Bevier had quoted the kits at $1.10 each, by the time he had finished selling Mr. Fechner they had somehow jumped to $1.40 each, the increase being apparently occasioned by Mr. Bevier's throwing in a sewing kit which sold wholesale for 12 ½?. With great reluctance. Director Fechner admitted that Be Vier Corp...
...product had been turned down by the Army, that he had cautioned Director Fechner against it. It seemed to him that what was good enough for soldiers was good enough for forestry workers on the dole. He variously estimated that the army could have bought the $1.40 Be Vier kit for 42?, 75?, at the most...
...were all required to make a substantial allotment from their pay to their depend ents. At Army camps they were issued: O. D. (olive drab) woolen trousers, O. D. flannel shirts, work trousers, underclothes, socks, shoes, raincoat, jumpers, work hat, cravat, belt, barracks bag, two O. D. blankets, mess kit. For two weeks the Army was to condition them, teach them the rudiments of camp life. As civilians they were not to be put through military drills. When sufficiently toughened, units of 20 to 100 were to be shipped to National Forests where they will plant trees, clear brush, work...