Word: uniforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kind is Defense Passive, a corps of women who, if there ever are any air raids, will drive ambulances and help drag the wounded out of smashed buildings. Some Defense Passives have already bought long, brown, gas-proof capes with yellow scarves, but most are still thriftily hesitating to uniform themselves. Just now they are "practicing," driving about at night in completely lightless ambulances to hypothetical bomb spots...
...Some idle women made an effort to assemble amazing 'war costumes' that betrayed their vague nostalgia for an officer's uniform. Raincoats closed with slide fasteners made a startling appearance in the restaurants of the moment, as well as the most tailored jackets you have ever seen, at which you glanced a second time to find the epaulets, the decorations, and the service stripes. And sometimes, on my word, you found them...
...motormakers bought connecting rod grinders that stepped up production from 250 to 850 units an hour, a machine for bending window-finish strips by which a five-man team producing 50 strips per hour was replaced by one man bending 120 strips. To make the wide, light-gauge, uniform sheet steel for auto bodies, etc., steelmakers came up in 1926 with the continuous strip rolling mill. Costing as high as $20,000,000, operated by as few as 2,000 men, it threw out team upon team of hand mill men who used to flip the steel sheets from...
Certain it is that for some time the famed Eighth Route Army has been an uneasy fieldfellow with the Central Armies. Communists scorn the elegant-mannered, fancy-uniformed officers of Whampoa Military Academy (founded by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek); the Government resents the exaggerated publicity the simple-living, peasant-loving, estate-looting Communist guerrillas have had. Government soldiers get $7.50 to $9 (Chinese) per month; Communist soldiers get $1. The Government charges that the Communists promised to limit their Army to some 45,000 men, but have recruited over 100,000. Communists charge that the Government promised a monthly subsidy...
Number one is short shock headed, and a Senior. He looks like a pouter pigeon in his football uniform. For two years he plugged away on the Jayvees as blocking back and guard, and got his chance on the Varsity this fall. After the Penn game Dick Harlow said, "He was out manned. I thought the Penn guards would ride him into the Charles River...