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Part of the Memorial Hall floor was curtained off into a canteen which contained one incoming table and two outgoing tables. That is where we went from temperature and pulse-taking. The canteen was decorated all over with red and white and amply staffed with grey ladies who urged coffee and cookies on the donors. The tables all had pins and booklets about blood to keep up morale. While I was at the incoming table a girl at one of the outgoing tables collapsed. A short doctor and a tall intern carted her off, and a grey lady immediately rushed...
...beginning no one was afraid," said Mrs. Townsend afterwards. "The kids were having fun making castles with the cans. But the crowd set fire to the awnings and the canteen next door. Fire was crackling all around us. The mob broke into a drink shop. We were awfully scared then. People began shouting, 'Where's the bloody army?' It was a real shaky...
Fine Wines. This season, cheery John Christie is breathing easier. His six-week season is fully sold out. Happily he scurries about the staff canteen, clearing tables, offering mild suggestions to artists, and making himself generally useful. Example: guests invited for the final dress rehearsal last week found Christie in the driveway waving cars into parking spaces...
...little new in the job for 47-year-old Olive Anne. As secretary-treasurer (salary: $35,610), she had managed the company's finances from the start. She also found time to have a family (Suzanne, 13, and Mary Lynn, 10) and to manage Wichita's wartime canteen. When her husband was hospitalized for a year in 1940, she added many of his chores to her own. She got the first Emergency Plant Facilities contract ($2,500,000) from the Government for wartime plant expansion in the airplane industry. In 1943, the New York Times listed...
...rifle. The dead man's pack contained a glob of soggy rice, freshly cooked and wrapped in a dirty blue cloth, a shovel, a tin cup and a spoon; he had no first-aid kit, no ammunition belt (he carried his bullets loose in his pocket), and no canteen. His shoes were Korean-made rubber sneakers...