Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Zinder spent Christmas Day in Bethlehem in Judea, watching the thousands of pilgrims (so many of them American boys and girls in uniform this year) who flock to worship above the manger where Christ was laid when there was no room for Mary and Joseph...
...millions of citizen soldiers, confidence in their technical leadership means morale. As a civilian in uniform, who wants to go home as soon as possible, the U.S. soldier wants to be sure that the ugly job he must do is competently handled. Under General Marshall, he knows it is; and this is why the U.S. soldier, in action, has proved utterly dependable and determined-the ultimate test of morale. Before & after the battle the U.S. soldier will proudly remain the world's champion grouser-he will beef handsomely even at the Victory Parade...
General MacArthur recently said "News is as necessary to the combat soldier as bread and bullets"-and today millions of young Americans in uniform are getting the newsmagazine habit and reading TIME cover-to-cover each week-to learn the news from home and to see how the fighting is going with their friends on other battlefronts all around the world...
...World War I, mustering-out pay was a flat $60. When an able-bodied World War II soldier is discharged, he gets the thanks of his country, and his uniform.* To two Congressional committees last week, this did not seem enough. They wrestled with bills calling for pay from $100-$500. Estimated cost of such legislation: $3 billion. (Most conservative estimate of the ultimate World War II pension bill: $45 billion...
Marshal Stalin is 5 ft. 5 in. tall. But there was magnetism and a certain majesty in the figure with the brushlike mane, iron-grey mustache, a bright Marshal's uniform which was slightly too large for a perfect fit. In all that he did and said, he was quiet, impassive, at times almost immobile. He walked smoothly, effortlessly into every reception and meeting of the Conference. Sophisticated diplomats said that when he passed them in the gardens their hair rose and they quivered. He spoke softly, often in low whispers. To his hearers, his words seemed to come...