Word: wear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...style dazzle drapes showed up distinctly. The solid green and chocolate drapes could not be seen at 5,000 feet, could not be photographed at 10,000 feet. Result: from now on, well dressed U. S. Army trucks, tanks, big guns will carry solid green drapes for summer wartime wear, solid brown drapes for autumn...
...Government considered and rejected the idea of convoying U. S. ships in danger zones. It ordered U. S. ships, instead of slinking from U-boats or fighting back: to sail straight courses; at night to advertise themselves by a searchlight playing on the flags at their mastheads; to wear no camouflage but to paint the Stars and Stripes on their decks and hatch covers, to paint their names and flag large on their sides...
...generally observed in Europe's air forces. Last year, while the world was busy at rearmament it spent generously on parachutes because a pilot is a fighting asset well worth saving even if his plane is lost. Now the world wants more chutes than ever, for war means wear, tear and crashes-high mortality for life savers...
...every ten people in Poland (total population: 35,000,000) is Jewish. The reactionary, white-collar Endeks (National Democratic Party) have tried to persuade the Government to adopt Nazi tactics of persecution. The Jews, who live for the most part in ghettos and who persistently wear the black coats, beards, yamilkes (skullcaps) and haircuts the Tsars forced on them many years ago, have not had a happy time in Poland. Nevertheless, Poland's Zionists last week declared that 3,500,000 Jews "wait in full preparedness" to do their part in defending the country...
...effigies removed. On the black marble slab of Great Britain's Unknown Warrior in the Abbey's nave, a wreath of brown orchids inscribed "The Italian Embassy" lay beside a wreath from President Albert Lebrun of France. >Great Britain's Cardinal Kinsley told nuns they might wear headdresses that fitted over gas masks, recommended "a simplified form . . . consisting of: 1) an unstarched, tight-fitting cap or snugly fitting under-veil, over which the respirator could easily be adjusted, 2) a heavier outer-veil which could be pulled back over the head harness of the respirator when...