Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...again, as heady as the smell of garlic to New York's duck-bottomed little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. But he would have none of them. Had he not been deceived 17 months ago? Then he had gone confidently to a Manhattan haberdasher and bought a resplendent gabardine uniform, suitable for one silver star, had waited for orders to fly to North Africa, perhaps dreaming of marching into Rome at the head of U.S. columns. But a Congressional hubbub over "political generals" had stopped the appointment cold; Franklin Roosevelt sent to Italy two other New York Democrats, lameduck Charles Poletti...
...ordered the telephone exchange shut down, lest any information be phoned to the enemy. He proclaimed a curfew. He ordered the town cop to get out of his grey-green, swastika-decorated uniform before someone shot him, and temporarily to carry on his constabular duties in civilian clothes, wearing a brassard...
...House, Arkansas' James William Fulbright introduced a resolution to put Congress on record in favor of international agreements guaranteeing the world press and radio the right to write, transmit and publish news without governmental or private interference, and at uniform communication rates...
Boeing Air Transport, which was later incorporated into United Airlines, was the first radio-equipped transport line; the first with stewardesses, one of the earliest with pilots in uniform. In 1933 Phil Johnson built the first all-metal, twin-engined transport-the famed Boeing 247, which instantly outmoded the hodgepodge of U.S. aircraft equipment...
...reported the Chinese educator, now teach only physics, medicine, engineering, agriculture. The students are almost the only able-bodied young male civilians to be seen in the cities where the proportion of young men to young women is now about one to 40. The students must wear a special uniform, are forbidden to appear on the streets with girls or to have dates with them. Even brothels are closed to them. Their chief relaxation is to get drunk-but even this is difficult. Japan's wartime grog ration is two bottles of beer a month for each male adult...