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...most front-line troops agreed with Willie. They had their own jeering nicknames for the even cheaper noncombat awards. The Asiatic-Pacific Theater ribbon was the "malaria bar with atabrine clusters"; the pre-Pearl Harbor service medal was the "Lend-Lease cross...
...became an overseas gag that a WAC who had done nothing more than commute to & from the Pentagon could hardly miss at least three awards: the American Theater Campaign Ribbon, the Victory Medal, the Good Conduct Ribbon. Totals ran so high that the wartime U.S. could not afford the metal to strike the medals themselves, issued ribbons instead...
...insurance and borrowing from friends, he scraped up enough to join a fellow clerk in buying out a carriage factory for $2,000. Through his prodigious energy and salesmanship ("he could coax a bird out of a tree") the company acquired 14 plants by 1904. Durant's "Blue Ribbon" carriages became the Fords of a horse-drawn world...
...Heps, blue-ribbon meet for all Ivy colleges, will be held this year in the Stadium on May 17. The Crimson will play host to Army, Navy, Pennsylvania, Cornell, Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, and Columbia. Army, with 56 points, was an easy winner last spring, with the Crimson in fifth place...
...their last day in Cape Town the King & Queen donned their best finery (an admiral's uniform with the blue ribbon of the Garter for him; a gown of pale crepe and Queen Mary's borrowed diamond tiara for her), to preside at the opening of South Africa's Parliament -the first British monarchs ever to do so. The King spoke for six minutes, first in English, then in Afrikaans. That night the family boarded the 14-car royal gold-and-cream train, to continue their conquests over 5,000 miles for the next eight weeks...