Where did Dust Bowl farmers go during the great depression? The displaced farmers became the migrants described in John Steinbeck's, Grapes of Wrath. Families from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada and Arkansas, packed what tâ¦hey could in cars and trucks and headed west.
Actually, the term is as old as the Navy, or perhaps older. Nautically, a lanyard is a short rope or wire rove through deadeyes to hold and tauten standing rigging. Lanyards are also known as the rope that is pulled to fire a cannon from a ship. Pirates actually using lanyards! We love that image here.
These aiguillettes should not be confused with lanyards, which are cords also worn from the shoulder (or around the neck), but do not have the pointed aiguillette tips and are usually of fibre rather than gold or silver wire, and often not braided.