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During the decoration ceremonies many men of the 19th discovered for the first time that the Group had a standard. It was uncovered in a vault at Tucson, Ariz., flown to Pyote, where Olds pinned the four silken streamers on it. No other outfit in the U.S. Army could boast four World War II citations...
From Paris he sent me a silken dress...
...dream caress of a silken dress...
...families (6,000,000 people) make part of their living by raising mulberry trees, feeding the leaves to silkworms, selling the cocoons that the worms spin out of their lower jaws. Several hundred thousand little Japanese girls earn their living and their marriage dowries in the filatures where the silken cocoons are un reeled. Until last summer the U.S. bought 90% of Japan's raw silk exports, amounting in 1940 to $150,311,000. Then the freezing of Japanese credits in the U.S. virtually stopped the trade...
...Vincere Aut Mori"--To Conquer or To Die--is the ringing motto emblazoned on the Cambridge Fire Department's silken standard, designed and sown by one of its own members. "Organization and efficiency" might be a suitable, if less heroic, description of the innards of the light brick building in the spacious square under the shadow of Memorial Hall. Gone are the days of penny ante outside in the sun, of shirt-sleeved players and the inevitable kibitzers, who represent the common conception of the way a fireman spends his spare time. Science has forced the jovial, slapstick era into...