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...prevalence of GI clothing, the comparative scarcity of civilian garb, and the popularity of parka jackets made the move advisable, according to William C. Bradford, secretary of the Union...
Adjustment of Union dining hall rules to conform with veterans' clothing problems and changing styles has been effected by the Union Committee in a move permitting any field jackets and other parka-type garments to be substituted for suit coats at morning and noon meals...
Last week the Marvita chugged into tiny Hebron, most northern of bleak Labrador's mission-trading posts. Parka-clad voters padded aboard to mark ballots, picking one of the five candidates-a fisherman, a clergyman, an ex-Ranger, two wireless operators-as Labrador's lone representative at next month's national convention in St. John...
...Company had a new fur-trade clerk. Rupert Brace Tinling, 21-year-old Royal Canadian Navy veteran from Winnipeg, had signed for a three-year apprenticeship. He liked fishing and hunting; he would have ample opportunity for both. Besides, his mother said, "he'd rather wear a parka and old trousers than the best dress suit...
...British and five American observers-clambered up the shining aluminum sides of their 4½-ton vehicles and dropped through topside hatches into 6 ft.-by-5 ft. cabins. Young (33), British-born Lieut. Colonel Patrick Douglas Baird, 6 ft. 7 in. from the peak of his blue parka to the soles of his mukluk boots, stood waist-high and erect in the hatch of the No. 1 "snow" as it moved ponderously out of line, swung left, headed down the street. The other vehicles, each tugging two supply-laden sleds in tandem, followed. The base's siren whined...