Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Naturally we are all very proud of our TIME & LIFE men and women in uniform...
...third of our pre-Pearl Harbor staff go off to the wars. So far 46 girls have left to join the Wacs or the Waves or the Red Cross- and the Service Roster in our reception room shows that there are now 340 TIME, LIFE & FORTUNE men in uniform (almost 50 percent have earned commissions). And the services seem to have made good use of the special skills of these men. To mention just a few, a photographer is "still my own photo boss with my own lab" ... an editorial man is Yank's senior Alaska correspondent...
...blunt question at Selective Service: what about all those 4-F professional athletes between the ages of 18 and 26? "They proved to thousands by their great physical feats upon the football or baseball field that they are as physically fit ... as are the 11,000,000 men in uniform...
More than Enough. For a country that had almost a tenth of her manpower in uniform and fighting overseas, Canada had done more than enough. In the first eleven months of 1944, Dominion exports totaled $3,173,000,000-80% of it war business...
...airport, the hinterland city of 40,000 went into a dither. First to greet the visitor was U.S. Army Observer Colonel David Dean Barrett, an old China hand, who was dressed in a faded, padded blue-cotton greatcoat over his woolen olive drab. General Hurley wore correct two-star uniform, complete with three rows of campaign ribbons, Mexican Aztec Eagle, White Eagle of Yugoslavia, D.S.C. (for gallantry in World War I) and U.S. Distinguished Service Medal with oakleaf cluster. Cracked the Colonel: "General, you have got a ribbon there for everything but Shays's Rebellion...