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...Alaska and Greenland this winter, U.S. soldiers present a new silhouette, a new color: Olive Drab 7 (very dark). Reason: G.I.s in northern posts are testing the Army's latest field uniform...
Last week the search was conducted, and the King's safety assured, by a detail of Home Guards in drab battle dress...
...maneuvers had just seen some 15,000 troops go through their paces with modern weapons (some made in Mexico, some supplied by the U.S.), a small air force (with more trainers than combat craft on view), motorized infantry and cavalry battalions. The troops were disciplined and tidy in olive drab, with French-style tin hats or square, peaked fatigue caps with back-flaps reminiscent of France's Foreign Legion...
...tattered blue kimono, Mrs. Sousa nourished a secret passion for efficiency. Incapable of keeping the house clean, she never failed to mark letters to local stores AIR MAIL. Her favorite recreation: brooding over her own canceled checks. Her conviction: that hired help led lives that "were pretty drab and needed brightening." So hired help always left the Sousa home stewed to the gills...
While the big, drab supply trucks lurch slowly over the scrubby, khaki-grey plateau of southern Persia, bearing Lend-Lease supplies to Russia, Persia remains on the United Nations payroll. If the Allies seize all of the Mediterranean, the cumbersome overland route to Russia may be abandoned; Persia will be out in the cold. Shrewd Persian Premier Ali Soheily added these facts last week,came up with a neat sum-Persia declared war on Germany to become eligible: 1) for Lend-Lease; 2) for a seat at the peace table...