Word: uniforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that man, he should be wearing high boots. These are Federal Army uniforms. There were Civil War soldiers working on that railroad and every now & then even a Confederate uniform would turn up. . . . The engineering details at first were even worse. Laning had square-cut ties under the tracks which were never used until 25 or 30 years ago. The rail which the coolies were handling was at least an 80 or 90-lb. rail. I made him reduce the size of the rail. Rolling mills in those days couldn't produce anywhere near that size of rail...
...months and years, long queues of worshipful believers in Communism and curious infidels moved slowly through the doorway, flanked by two immobile guards, down a narrow passage to an underground room, through heavy air that muffled footfalls, discouraged talk. In that uneasy silence the body, clad in the uniform of a Red Commander with a shroud over the legs, lay on a block of black granite, beneath a tent-shaped enclosure of glass. The bald, Slavic head with scrubby, rufous beard and mustache rested on a silk pillow. From the ridge of the glass enclosure shielded lights glowed...
...Realmleader. "Uncle Anton," they recalled, tried vainly for years to sponge on his illustrious but close-pursed nephew;. Finally he egged one of his sons to beg Cousin Adolf to send him $3 to buy a Nazi brown shirt. Replied the Realmleader: "Dear Cousin: You must buy your uniform with your own money. I am unable to accommodate...
...matter of electric service at the Foundation. Mr. Roosevelt stated that the Foundation was a charitable organization . . . and asked if we would not give the Foundation a special rate on its electricity. ... I told him we could not do this, that our rates were required by law to be uniform to all customers...
...rains, commuted by plane from Cooperstown. In the crowd that saw Al Vanderbilt's Postage Due win the United States Hotel Stakes were New Jersey's Attorney General David T. Wilentz, Producer George White, Sportsman Joseph E. Widener and, wearing the aged panama hat which is his uniform for the Saratoga season, George H. Bull, portly president of the Saratoga Association for the Improvement of the Breed of Horses...