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...Marines were hard at work. In the chill winter sunshine of Virginia, they slogged in single file along the roadsides, in thin lines through the naked valleys and over the bare bundocks of the Quantico reservation. Instructors and recruits alike wore the drab, unmilitary-looking coverall working outfit, but the boots had already learned to tilt their campaign hats slightly askew over the right eye. Most of them carried Springfields slung over their shoulders. A few also dragged two-wheeled machine guns and ammunition carts that Marines call "Cole-carts' (after their inventor, Major General Eli Kelley Cole...
...first time since the Florida boom of the '20s. Old residents complained that Negro cooks and maids, whom they had paid $4-$7; a week, were quitting to work for families of Army and Navy officers at $10-$12 a week. The sporting houses on Jacksonville's drab Houston Street expanded their personnel...
...start a year's training at Fort Meade as the First Battalion 176th Infantry. In the next two weeks two more noted socialite units will be inducted: Philadelphia's First Troop City Cavalry and Manhattan's swank Seventh Regiment (207th Coast Artillery). Clad in regulation olive drab, they will be in camp by the end of the month...
...well coordinated. Again just before the half they staged a drive which the half-time whistle cut short on the Indian 11: And Chief Boston's men were going strong at the very end of the game. Except for these sparks of talent, however, the picture was pretty drab...
...Bigelow was right. Gone were the grey, morgue-like walls, the drab showcases, the cloistered darkness of the old store at 37th Street. Instead, large windows, scarcely marred by crossbars, admitted beams of sunlight. Even the clerks looked a little younger. But one thing had not changed, probably never would: the Tiffany tradition of muffled, almost clandestine conservatism...