Word: uniforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Uniform trade practices governing sales, deliveries and terms of payment will be adopted, but there will be no price-fixing or pooling of sales...
...diet rich in carbohydrates, especially sugar. A high bacillary count, in turn, is almost always found to be associated with a high rate of decay. At the orphanage it was found that caries [decay] could be practically eliminated, except in the over-susceptible group, by the feeding of a uniform, fairly adequate, low sugar diet...
...flyers used to wear baggy plus fours of assorted tweeds and gaudy sports sweaters when Germany's air army was really secret. After Hitler became Chancellor they changed to a "grey blue uniform, purely civilian." Last week, like caterpillars bursting out of greyish skins, German air officers sprouted into Reichswehr slate blue, their short Nazi "dirks of honor" lengthening into swords...
...peasants this forecast that the boon of private housekeeping will soon be conferred brought joy. Another mistake, according to Stalin via Yakovlev, has been the Dictator's attempt to stamp out all private cultivation whatever by peasants on collective farms. Forecast was a uniform system for Soviet peasants, now forcibly 80% collectivized, under which each family will enjoy not only private housekeeping but the further boon of tilling for its own private enjoyment between one and three acres...
Everyone knows that those boys, when the bugle blew, were over there prepared to give their all, quo quidem, opere quid potest esse praeclarius? The state police seem to forget the fact that the possession of a uniform in 1918 gives a man a privilege, well not to be too frank, to sort of disregard the laws and not to work too hard on P.W.A. They seem to forget that our boys went through hell, hell, mind you, and also the streets of Paris and the Follies Bergere...