Word: billeter
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...days later another sister landed, bombed out too. They all had kids so you can imagine what it was like in a three-room bungalow. Well, anyway, in a couple of days Kit was right enough again to have the usual wrangle with the usual nasty billeting officer and finally got a billet with, somebody. But next day that person's mother and family, also bombed out, arrived, so the billet was out. I took my week's holiday and I moved them all down to some relations at Quagmarsh. There they seemed to be all right...
...heart set on supply ship billet, but the ship has to be "definitely in the Pacific!" By the time he reports following graduation, he should have his two full stripes, for the last ALNAV just missed him. Those four ribbons he wears are for expert rifleman, American theater, Asiatic-Pacific theater, and pre-Pearl Harbor...
...favorite classmates, who isn't doing too well in disbursing, recently asked his instructor what billet the low man in the last class received. "Oh, nothing much," replied the amiable lieutenant. "He got a gasoline barge sailing between Samoa and the States!" Our friend is studying harder...
...Peachie (the Mighty Mite): free and unrestricted access to sick bay, provided they haven't taken quarters there first. . . . Elemendo Rossi: (lately hitched) a copy of Cl to occupy his off-hours and weekends. . . . To Long: our notes, assiduously compiled in radio engineering. . . . McCarthey: Recommendations for a staff billet. . . . Newnam: a calendar to be used on his next leave. . . . Mr. Glennon: an unexpurgated copy of "Gertie from Bizerte" for classroom use. . . . Then, of ciurse, we cannot forget OUR BOY . . . to OUR BOY we leave the following: some assorted grimaces, a half-dozen new stances, our love, and a New Revised...
...Core. Magnitogorsk was named for a mountain which contained 275,000,000 tons of 62% pure magnetic iron ore. With the rest of the Soviet Union's Urals development, it was the iron core of Russian resistance after the Germans seized the industrial Ukraine. Today its furnaces, blooming, billet, rolling and wiredrawing mills, its machine shops and aluminum plants cover 2 7 square miles. The furnaces produce more steel than all of Russia under the Czars; and Magnitogorsk is still expanding...