Word: bottlesful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leverett's Bill Keane reports that his House turns out more bottles every morning than it used to. He doesn't see it go in, but the bottles come out at the rate of about ten per morning during quite days, and after parties, in unlimited quantities.
He rolled up his shirt sleeve with a flourish as he entered the small, very white room. When his eyes got used to the glare from the gleaming walls, Vag saw what he knew he should have expected, but hadn't. He counted them, five women lying on their backs...
¶The best-selling beverages in & around Army camps are: coffee, malted milk, milk, soft drinks. At Fort Lewis, Wash., 400.000 bottles of one soft drink were sold in one month at post dances.
At sundown (5 p.m.) on the first day out we reached the former no man's land at El Alamein. The entire western half of the area was littered with German and Italian guns and shells, helmets, clothing, food, maps and other things, smashed and torn by the Aussies...
In this summer's drive two wagon loads of scrap were taken in by the salvagers. Much of this was of little use, however, including such items as a pair of shoulder guards from Eliot House and a collection of beer bottle tops. "The bottles themselves would have been a...