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...design-award from the Army and a $9,900 award from the Navy. His first actual order was for $7,672 worth of parts for Convair's Stinson observation planes. The company kept going during World War II by making such varied products as ammo boxes, gun turret parts and tail assemblies...
...there appeared so far no clinching sign that the enemy was in general retreat or that his morale had cracked. He still counterattacked, resisted fiercely, took back several nameless ridges. He had plenty of ammo. For days his own radio kept mum about the Inchon landing. U.N. planes dropped 3,000,000 leaflets, breaking the news and calling on him to surrender or die. At week's end his choice was still death, not surrender...
...What did you forget, Sam?" I asked in panic, thinking he'd neglected to issue ammo to his machine-gun section...
...Clay" and "Bird Dog." Officially, what was in the cases was a secret. Said one G.I. truckman to another after a week of it: "They can't fool me. Know what we're carrying in them boxes? Ammunition for the Israelites!" His companion replied: "It's ammo all right, but something tells me it's going to the A-rabs...
Both were wrong, though the Western powers hoped that it was "ammo" of a sort. The cases contained crisp new blue-backed currency notes (printed in the U.S.) which the Western powers started issuing last week in place of the billions of marks now clogging Western Germany's inflated, paralyzed economy. The rate of exchange would be announced later, but the Germans would probably get only one new mark for ten old ones. Anticipation of the currency reform started Germans on a frantic buying spree to get rid of their old money...