Word: wacs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blue-penciling gowns, like an editor, and her critical decisions ("No, no, that sleeve is out I") were almost always right. The Carnegie foundation for a wardrobe-the "little Carnegie suit" became a basic garment for well-dressed women, and was later translated by Hattie into the WAC uniform. Another recent Carnegie creation: a modernized habit for a branch of the Carmelite nuns...
...cane, became a familiar one at Negro rallies throughout the U.S. She founded the National Council of Negro Women (more than 800,000 members), was special adviser to Franklin Roosevelt on minority problems ("Mrs. Bethune, I believe in you"), served as special assistant to the Secretary of War on WAC training. In all her work, she was a symbol and part of the progress of the Negro race itself...
...WACs went around the world, did almost everything. There were WAC telephone operators at the Quebec Conference. WACs camped in Normandy apple orchards. WACs in the Southwest Pacific made a green and gold company flag from parachute lining dyed with atabrine and green ink. The WACs who landed in New Guinea furnish a fairly typical case history. Arriving at Port Moresby, they drove to their campsite through lines of fuzzy-haired natives and whistling G.I.s. They found the camp in a state of complete unreadiness, but were saved by a "friendly men's unit" that gave them drinking water...
Permanent Part. As a history, The I Women's Army Corps is not unlike the WAC as an organization: sometimes stumbling over a mass of detail, sometimes clutching self-consciously at its literary skirts, it nevertheless manages to come out smiling and moving ahead at a brisk military pace...
...book leaves no doubt that, after its dismal beginning, the WAC came to be an established and respected branch of the Army. General Douglas MacArthur described the WACs in his command as "my best soldiers." Still another tribute came when the Army Ground Forces command, long the bitter opponent of the women's service, took the lead in urging that the WAC ought to be a permanent part of the Army...