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...insure accurate copying of these cuts and others, one hairdresser introduced accurate code designations for the first time with letters as symbols (N for neckline, H for halo), figures for length. The haircut Greer Garson wore in Mrs. Miniver is #53, L12 (five inches long for three front cuts; length, twelve inches in back). "V" stands for the disordered Victory Cut worn by Ann Sheridan and many a U.S. female factory worker...
Motivating force of the congress was the increasing awareness of the value of economically sound and socially expedient insurance plans in bulwarking stable governments and increasing war production and national wealth. Emphasis was placed on "freedom from want" and "freedom from fear." Results: the first social-security code for all the Americas, and recommendations that domestics, farm laborers and professional workers be included in social-security programs...
...charged the Schechter Bros, of Brooklyn with selling unfit poultry and otherwise breaking the Live Poultry Code; in 1935 the Supreme Court's decision on this famed test case made the Blue Eagle a very dead bird...
...hungry man returning from a hunt may stop at a village four miles from home, send a message to his wife to come in from her garden in the jungle and feed him. Message in drum code: "She is better than the daughter of other tribes, she who stands there. Oyono must not join the fighting, I don't want Oyono to die. Come walk quickly, quickly, I feel hunger not small." Dinner will be waiting when he gets home...
...good drummer knows not only the code messages, but code names for some 200 people. Sometimes in the early morning, when sound travels best, he will make a roll call of all important people in the district. Dr. Good passes on some good advice for drummers: "Don't lean over the drum or its sound will be muffled. Look in the direction you wish the sound to go. A good drummer must not eat chicken wings, give them to someone else...