Word: canteens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Doris Duke Cromwell, sent to Egypt last year by the United Seamen's Service to run a merchant seamen's canteen, turned up in Rome with excited accounts of her travels: after six weeks in Alexandria, she had flitted to Italy, thence to Sardinia, where she ran a U.S.A.A.F. canteen. Now in Rome, she was pulling wires -so gossips said-to get to England, where a mysterious romance waited. Offered a job by Hearst's I.N.S. Rome office as a war correspondent, Doris said yes. But the War Department firmly said...
...G.I.s, a wintry, curfewed Paris seemed much gayer last week: up near the Arc de Triomphe a Stage Door Canteen -or Cabaret des Troupes Alliées-had opened and was going full blast. Inside a day or two, in fact, it was frantically yelling for more hostesses, and the orchestra, plagued by boys who wanted to dance every second, was already dying on its derri...
...officers do not have to work, and few of them choose to-repair Army clothes, tools and noncombat Army equipment, build sheds, lay roads. The Army also hires them out as farm laborers, woodcutters, quarry workers. The prisoner-workers are paid 80? a day by the Army (in canteen coupons) and wages for their work, paid at prevailing rates, go directly to the U.S. Treasury. P.W.s have saved crops, released service troops for other jobs, and the U.S. Government last year rang up about $10,000,000 on the deal...
...battle for Iwo, a 28-man patrol from Company A of the 21st Regiment (part of Major General Graves B. Erskine's 3rd Division) broke through to the northeast coast and slid down the cliffs to the beach. To General Schmidt, they sent back a canteen of sea water, marked "for approval-not for consumption." To the aid stations they carried back their wounded, caught in Jap mortar fire on the beach. Next day, the 4th made a second breakthrough, cutting the Japs into three pockets, one of which was soon eliminated. As this week began, it was time...
That, I submit, is a one-line review of Hollywood Canteen. The whole glittering intricate thing blew up in our faces, and when we made our way back to the tents, stumbling and trying to avoid the foxholes in the dark, there was a fierce resentment burning like acetylene in each of us. . . . It was as though we'd been taken into a millionaire's home, treated like uncouth fools to whom a debt was unfortunately owed, then sent back, dazed by the splendorous kindliness of the mighty, to our six-by-three lives...