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...long-delayed "Petticoat Army" Bill was close to enactment last week. Even happier than the bill's feminine backers was the Army itself, which wanted to free as many men as possible for combat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy And Civilian Defense: WAAC at Last | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

...Army Signal Corps decided not to wait any longer for the petticoat army to materialize, started recruiting women radio and telephone operators along with men. They will serve (as men do) as civilian specialists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy And Civilian Defense: WAAC at Last | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

...through Whitsun weekend, before rationing went into effect, there was a frantic scurry to stock up from pushcart peddlers and any stores that were open. In London's famed Petticoat Lane, 50,000 men and women surged around the Jewish street market, bought an estimated 500,000 coupons' worth of clothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Clothes WIll Be Worn | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

...Petticoat Terror of the Plains." In this rambling, loose book, Burton Rascoe, who spent his boyhood in Oklahoma and is still an honorary deputy of Pottawatomie County, is at pains to show that such names were not altogether deserved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Petticoat Terror | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

...gathered the back of the skirts in her right hand, swirling them forward, so the ruffled lining and frilled silk petticoat showed above her ankles and you could see ten inches of her high-heeled buttoned shoes. She held her pocketbook in her left hand but managed to pick up just a pinch of skirt above her knee with the thumb and the forefinger. Holding her skirts that way molded her thighs and showed every beautiful curve of her figure. As she stepped over the curb to the cobblestones, she raised her eyes to the house next door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Natural Switch | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

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