Word: washes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believe it when I see the first package returned, which may take as much as ten days, they admit. Anyhow, the Defense Laundries have been "taken over" by the Army (and the Army can have them) and local laundries will take your clothes only if you go along to wash them, so where does this leave...
...play-yard contains what PBH describes as the last metal swing in the city of Boston, as well as a hose shower and galvanized iron wash-tub. Thirty boys and girls play with the crates. Swings, and toys, while the PBH janitor gleefully squirts then with the hose. Supervising the activities are four trained assistants, while the PBH secretaries lean out of the windows to watch the frolic...
Controlling the flying boxcar on the end of the tow cable is not easy. Our pilot worked hard at it, carefully keeping us above the tow plane and out of its jolting prop-wash. He gripped the control wheel tightly, several times took one hand off to stretch his cramped fingers...
...deferred because of "extreme hardship." Draft Director Hershey described a sample case: "... A man with two or three children, whose wife is an invalid and who has nothing except what he earns, and who . . . has to take care of his wife and children . . . get the meals and wash the children's clothes...
...customers for diaper service in Washington, D.C. were accepted only on a doctor's prescription, certifying that the mothers were too ill to wash diapers themselves, or on priorities for war workers...