Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seascape. In Syracuse, N.Y., Rudolph Di Biasio, picked up for being A.W.O.L. by U.S. Navy shore patrolmen, was released after he proved his uniform was the regulation Sea Scout outfit of the Boy Scouts...
...Service News, a paper designed to present the news of the University as adequately as possible to the student population at Harvard, which is now roughly in the proportion of six thousand naval and military trainees to six hundred civilian undergraduates. With a large proportion of our staff in uniform, we commenced publication with the idea that we would avoid such issues as would involve us editorially...
Only available transportation to the coast was by boxcar, hardly suitable for an Ambassador. Lieut. Garcia proved to be a diplomat in uniform. Tactfully, he ordered a parlor car. As he knew all along, no parlor car was available. Next morning, with full protocol, Lieut. Garcia ushered the Ambassadorial party into a private boxcar, provided them with C-rations, and started them off toward home...
...dinner was at London's famed Claridge's Hotel. Cocktails were sipped; all those present, including three or four women, were in uniform. Major General Henry J. F. Miller, handsome, 53-year-old chief of the Ninth Air Force Service Command, was telling someone about the tough time he was having to get certain crucial supplies. The date promised, he said, was too late. Henry Miller was quoted as saying: "On my honor the invasion will come before June...
...money (again as "Somebody") turning a theatrical warehouse into a super-canteen where the Deyo girls, Harry James, Xavier Cugat, Lena Home, Gracie Allen and Jimmy Durante entertain soldiers, sailors and cinemaddicts. In the end, Jean falls in love with a Texas onion-rancher in sergeant's uniform, and the way is clear for the girl with the million-dollar conscience to embrace the million-dollar blue-jacket...