Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...protect himself from another Moslem attack from Kansu, Sheng Shih-tsai invited the Russians to set up a Red Army garrison at Kami. A full regiment of Russian troops was stationed there-dressed not in Soviet uniform, but in the Chinese uniform. Russia was permitted to establish a trade agency called Sovintorg which monopolized all Sinkiang export trade. The newly built Turksib Railway exercised enormous economic force. Russians helped to lay out roads, planned irrigation projects, trained a provincial army, staffed provincial hospitals...
Workmen at the Remington Arms Co. plant in Bridgeport, Conn, call the incendiary "Blue Goose" (because its nose is colored blue, to differentiate it from other types of ammunition). The bullets are made in a secret area where visitors are barred and all workers must wear a special uniform. Neatest trick yet performed with the projectile: destroying a Japanese cargo vessel. U.S. flyers did that by dropping their belly fuel tanks on the ship's deck, then raking them with blue geese. The ship burned briskly...
Against the millions of men called up, there have been so far only 6,036 convictions for draft evasions in World War II. By quiet prowling, without the public emotionalism of "slacker raids," the FBI has quietly nudged some 200,000 other delinquents into uniform...
Inside the flag-hung hall 400 high offi cials and one woman, Mme. Chiang, stood as the Generalissimo recited the testament of Sun Yat-sen and reached for the single sheet of white paper inscribed with the oath of the Presidency. The Generalissimo, in full-dress uniform, was taut, expectant; his decorations gleamed and his immaculate white gloves moved restlessly. Kuomintang Elder Wu Chih-hui, scholar and veteran of 1911, solemnly handed the new President the great jade seal, wrapped in red silk, and Chiang was ready to deliver his Double Ten address, doing double duty as his inaugural...
...Texans nearly ruined one of the reviews once. They couldn't march without swaying from side to side on their parenthetical legs, but we'd have gotten by except that one of them thought the uniform of the day should include chaps. At that, we were lucky. His original idea was to lead the platoon on his boss...