Word: canteeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Watched Lord Halifax eat a doughnut at a Red Cross canteen; heard the Halifax bass harmonize on Deep in the Heart of Texas...
When asked about the effect of the Summer School on business, the waitress of a chain cafeteria looked out into the room full of soldiers and sailors and said, "We ought to change our name to 'The Armed Forces Canteen...
...peels off a vaudeville bill complete with jugglers, acrobats, magicians. After that, it turns into a big-scale revue, with Russian ballets jostling Harlem hurlyburly, with a rousing salute to the Navy and a resounding one for the Air Force. It makes copy of Broadway's Stage Door Canteen, with amateur-night take-offs of Jane Cowl, Joe Cook, Gypsy Rose Lee. And at last it brings Irving Berlin on the stage, to let him dig down into the Yip, Yip, Yaphank trunk and come up with Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning...
First-aiders removed temporary dressings applied on shipboard, wound on permanent ones. Only occasionally did they overlap, bandage a seaman a third time. Canteen workers sent up coffee and sandwiches. (Before they were through, canteeners served 500 meals, 1,000 cups of coffee, 250 sandwiches.) At about 11 o'clock another boatload came in, got the same treatment...
...taught 50,000 women about wartime food budgets and nutrition, trained 30,000 to man Red Cross canteens. (In nearly two-thirds of the country's 3,735 Red Cross chapters, the Canteen Corps is ready to feed the community in time of disaster...