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...uniform of the day is the news of the week. Have you noticed? The WAVES have gone into white blouses for the duration of summer. These are short-sleeved cotton affairs designed to be worn with the lightweight Navy blue working uniform. However, most of us are wearing them with our nice warm wool serge suits for the obvious reason that the Official Outfitter of WAVES has not yet caught up with the season. Another reason is that a mere lone ensign hasn't a got of a chance with enlisted girls a four platoons strong in the uniform shop...
Contrary to the rules regarding white blouse, long-sleeved, which you are used to seeing, rank pins are worn on the collar of white blouse, short-sleeved, because suit coats of the summer working uniform may be removed. Not that we are anxious to appear in these lovely little pillow-cases. Even if the manufacturer threw in two for the price of one, we wouldn't be happy wearing these when every women's shop in Boston, and even in Cambridge, offers at a lower price a smart-fitting shirt of finer material with pretty pearl buttons which...
Today as the House votes on the continuance of the Reciprocal Trade Pacts, time-worn ruts in the path of economic thought threaten to direct the course of American foreign policy. Right wheels of protectionism and isolationism indicate "no renewal." Left wing ruts are only lightly traced into American economic soil although sanctioned by both idealism and naked self interest. Unbelievable as it may seem at the present moment the ghost of an outmoded concept walks politically in our midst...
Last week small, round-faced Joe Trecker predicted that the industry's wartime business will stay at four to five times its peacetime production. His reasons: 1) inadequate, manpower-wasting equipment will be replaced as the capacity to make it is freed from more pressing work; 2) worn-out tools will boom the replacement business; 3) new weapons, new military strategy will call for new tools (e.g., a tank-making tool is no good if you want to make a "bazooka...
...reduction in the size and number of items worn by women and the change in the nature of the materials . . . made it fairly easy for women students to launder them in the bathrooms...