Word: canteeners
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...come a few Jap prisoners. A litter-borne Japanese captain, with bloody shoulder wounds swathed in bandages and with his ornate ceremonial sword still buckled to his belt, jolts by. Americans and Australians look curiously, the natives with hatred, at the captured. Japs. Once an American sergeant gave a canteen of water to a native carrier to a take over to a scraggy Jap. The native looked contemptuously at the prisoner, threw the canteen on the ground and spat: "Me no give water Japanese...
Shopping. New York's Lord & Taylor opened a Store Door Canteen staffed with 60 A.W.V.S. girls to aid service men in the selection of Christmas gifts. While shopping the men get free cookies, cigarets, out-of-town newspapers, magazines, lounging space, game tables and buying advice. For 5? a portion they can get (from a 30-ft. bar) coffee, apple pie, Coca-Cola, milk and Scotch broth, served by singing waitresses. Filene's in Boston introduced self-service in its gift-wrapping department, invited buyers to take a tray, register for payment, do their gift wrapping themselves...
...over the U.S. a little-known but strategic war industry is booming. It is the business of factory feeding. Two years ago this business contented itself with bourgeois monikers like "lunch wagon" or "canteen." Now the factory feeders haughtily call themselves "subsistence contractors," "industrial caterers," "rolling restaurants" and (at Cessna Aircraft) "Witamin Wagons...
...Chicago's up & coming Canteen Food Service, less than three years in the business, is already grossing $2,500,000 a year. Business is terrific for factory feeders, but so are their headaches: high prices, labor problems, food shortages and equipment and maintenance shortages. These make caterers' chief peacetime problems-practical jokers and snitchers-seem almost academic. But at least one big factory feeder still remembers with horror the day when a workman slipped some potassium cyanide he had pinched from the production line into some of its sandwiches. Before the "joke" was discovered, one man had died...
...Salvation Army mobile canteen was the first relief unit to reach Coventry, got there while the bombs were still falling...