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Posing as cigaret-company representatives, they said they wanted to send each man a carton as a gift. A wife, a mother, and a girl friend quickly supplied the information that their men had just sailed on a transport. One woman cheerily volunteered its destination...
...Badoglio Government, worried over his failure to report promptly, had sent out another mission to Lisbon. Again an Italian general was chosen, but now, as evidence of good faith, a captured British officer accompanied him. The officer was red-faced, one-armed, one-eyed Major General Adrian Carton de Wiart, one of the Empire's famed warriors, who had been captured by the Italians in 1941. London's Express called General de Wiart a "real-life, elusive Pimpernel." Not obliged to return to Italy, he turned up in London, while his Italian traveling companion went on to General...
...joys of an NTS, we pursue the pressing activities of the hour: places of artistic, marine, and Early American flavor, neglected in past weeks for studies in modern leather and-chrome interiors, must be visited; white suits must be retrieved from the shambles of the fitting room; that last carton of cigarettes to last through leave (if any) must be ordered from Ship's Service and paid for on the spot; once again those Pullman and airline reservations must be checked on; and weighty decisions must be made as to the expending of the balance in the Slush Fund...
Total sales were $2900, cost of sales $2450. To reduce the period profit to the required 15 percent, cigarettes have been reduced to $1.25 a carton. In case you're interested the store's balance sheet tips the scales at $3374. Forty percent of profits will be placed in the Supply School welfare Fund, 30 percent in Capital Reserve, and 30 percent in Net Worth...
...correspondent has offered a grand price of a carton of cigarettes to the service man who writes in a short story of the "minutest thing that happened since I joined the services...