Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...uniform of the day is the news of the week. Have you noticed? The WAVES have gone into white blouses for the duration of summer. These are short-sleeved cotton affairs designed to be worn with the lightweight Navy blue working uniform. However, most of us are wearing them with our nice warm wool serge suits for the obvious reason that the Official Outfitter of WAVES has not yet caught up with the season. Another reason is that a mere lone ensign hasn't a got of a chance with enlisted girls a four platoons strong in the uniform shop...
Contrary to the rules regarding white blouse, long-sleeved, which you are used to seeing, rank pins are worn on the collar of white blouse, short-sleeved, because suit coats of the summer working uniform may be removed. Not that we are anxious to appear in these lovely little pillow-cases. Even if the manufacturer threw in two for the price of one, we wouldn't be happy wearing these when every women's shop in Boston, and even in Cambridge, offers at a lower price a smart-fitting shirt of finer material with pretty pearl buttons which...
Airlines' Staff. For his chief of staff George picked a tall Texan who had wrought a wonder of airline organization and operation: 43-year-old Cyrus Rowlett Smith, president of American Airlines (biggest in the U.S.). C. R. Smith put on a colonel's uniform, went to work, has won a brigadier's star for the job he has done...
...whole. Key transport would be under central control; no more tariffs would be permitted within Europe, although each nation could still determine its own trade policy toward the rest of the world. Europe would have a central bank, investment authority, cartel policy, etc., all aimed at a common (not uniform) economic life...
...work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange for the first time in 150 years. She was good-looking, young (18), auburn-haired. But Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane - the brokers she represented-guarded against too great a panic by garbing her plainly in a tannish gabardine uniform. Even so there was excitement, and will be more. For Helen Hanzelin, until three months ago a junior in Long Island City's Bryant High School, is only the first of more to come. From the Exchange and its member firms 3,600 male employes have gone into...