Word: womens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Women who during the past few days have found themselves in uniform for the first time are inquiring as to the most suitable underclothing to wear with...
...women, children of all walks of life took spades in hand and dug 13 miles of zigzag trenches in parks, playgrounds, lawns, vacant lots. The rich rode in limousines to shady Lazienki Park, were bowed out by chauffeurs, pitched in until soft hands were raw. Men went straight from shops and offices to dig by night. Musicians' guilds and actors' associations were given schedules for digging. Alexandra Pilsudska, widow of Poland's great Josef Pilsudski, broke ground. The Mayor of Warsaw dug, and so did Premier Slawoj Skladkowski, right in his own front yard (he directed workers...
...Some 300,000 women and children were sent to the interior from Warsaw. But many women stayed in harness, 20,000 joined an organization called W. P. K. Its founder, Maria Wittek, fought in the World War in the Polish Legion and against the Bolsheviks under Marshal Pilsudski. He later gave her special permission to study in the military officers' college. She holds a rank in the regular army, is Inspectorette of the W. P. K. Her followers, in pleated blue skirts, khaki shirts, blue Sam Browne belts and berets, were last week taking over jobs as guards, drivers, messengers...
...amazement of A. R. P. organizers, 95% of the women employes answered "Yes." Calling in the chief of the women's division, the organizers asked her if she had explained to the girls exactly what claustrophobia meant. "Oh yes," said she, "I told them it meant being afraid of confinement...
Drugs and Blood. Among the huge supplies of surgical materials stored up by the Government: 600,000 doses of tetanus antitoxin; 13,000,000 yards of gauze bandage; 225,000 stretchers. Over 100,000 donors in the London area, mostly women, are having their blood typed, expect to be ready for transfusions within a few minutes' notice. Blood of the universal Type Four, which can be safely used for all persons, has been stored in refrigerated banks, in special air-tight bottles...