Lipstick Brigade Quotes

“They mixed baby oil with iodine, slathered it on their legs, and sat out in the sun to give them a reddish-brown tan that approximated the look of nylons.[82]”
― Cindy Gueli, Lipstick Brigade: The Untold True Story of Washington's World War II Government Girls

“Surveyors showed up unannounced at the twenty-acre campus of Mount Vernon Seminary and Junior College, a private girls' school on Ward Circle in Northwest Washington. The Navy announced it was taking immediate possession "in the interest of the war effort." It offered $800,000 for the property worth over $5 million, eventually agreeing to a $1.1 million purchase price. Over 5,000 codebreakers soon arrived to transform the school grounds into a Communications Annex.”
― Cindy Gueli, Lipstick Brigade: The Untold True Story of Washington's World War II Government Girls