Word: bags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military mind was closing in on the G.I. journals. Fortnight ago the Berlin edition suffered a body blow. The brass ruled that any letter to its "B-Bag" section, the doughfoots' one safety valve, must bear the letter writer's name, rank and serial number (not for publication, but in case the letters called for action). Under a rule like that, nobody was likely...
...week's end came hopeful news. The acknowledged Hattie Carnegie of sack fashions - Vice President Richard Peek of Kansas City's million-dollar Percy Kent Bag Co., which supplies the nation's millers with most of their printed sacks-announced that he had not yet lost a single order because of dark flour...
Their concern showed only in a pathetic anxiousness to plan for the future of those at home: "My insurance policy is in my bag that was in the small tent at Columbia. . . . Any personal property that I have at home I will give...
...regulars." Gentlemen, we believe that well over 70% of the reserves agree with us when we say that there isn't a sharper looking uniform in the service for enlisted men than that which the Navy has today. ... So don't hurry to throw that old sea bag to the deep...
Trouble, Trouble, Trouble. Those who were lucky enough to bag contracts had other troubles: maintenance costs were high, the best surplus planes were snapped up by the big companies; attempts to borrow money under the G.I. bill of rights were turned down because the Reconstruction Finance Corp. did not consider such airlines a good risk...