Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Built like a moving van (around 5 ft. 10 in., 200 Ibs.), Lou Diamond has one of the most notable paunches in the Marines. Beer did it. At Quantico he regularly stationed a detail to buy him a case when the PX opened at 4 o'clock, knocked it off, one gulp to the bottle...
Last week the newsmen celebrated again. In the San Francisco Hall of Justice press room, decorated with Shasta daisies and festooned with illuminated guests, 50 bottles of whiskey and four cases of beer were drunk up. Booker T. Day had become an annual affair...
...Navy abbrevation for Powers That Be) are planning something extra special for the interval between semesters. Just recall that old Navy principle "Learn by Doing" and you get some idea of what may be in store for us "up and coming" disbursing, supply, administrative, management, statistical, procurement, negotiating, inspecting, beer-drinking officers in the "interim." But let's not give up all hope, Maybe we'll all go to Shangri-La to see how the monastery keeps its books, with Ronald Colman and Jane Wyatt...
...Beer and Hair Tonic. All POWs are paid a regular allowance, credited to their account or in the cash of the camp: canteen coupons. Enlisted men get 10? a day, another 80? if they work on the camp farms or roads. Lieutenants get $20 a month, captains and majors $30, all ranks above, $40. Afternoons, there is a heavy run on the canteen. The Germans go for 3.2 beer (when available), the Italians for hair tonic. Cokes and ice cream are international favorites...
...Germans sing a lot, especially with their beer. Marching to the soccer field, they thunder out "Heute gehört tins Deutschland, Morgen die ganze Welt" ("Today we have Germany, tomorrow the world"). Marching back, they sing their sad, old soldier favorite, "Ich hatt' einen Kameraden" ("I had a comrade"). Italians seem to like to listen rather than sing, are always buying more records (mainly operatic) for their phonographs...