Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: ... As a former Red Cross Recreation Worker, overseas in the Southwest Pacific Area for 18 months, I say we were strictly "G.I." Regarding our love affairs, does Mr. Jason know that 75% of the R.C. girls in the SWPA married enlisted...
...WAVE and having been stationed in Charleston, S.C. 16 months and Parris Island four months (also South Carolina!)-and having put up with every kind of rudeness from the enlisted man on the streets and elsewhere-I can't help but admire said WACs, WAVES and Red Cross girls in their own built "aristocracy" overseas...
...parties. The town thought little of seeing fat and prosperous Oxnard dames driving to Lucy's house to borrow one of her legendary recipes. When a new Catholic priest came to town, Lucy prepared the barbecue with which the parish welcomed him. She gave generously to the Red Cross, the Boy Scouts and charities, cackling happily: "Jist don't ask where the money came from...
Queen Salote, 45, towering (6 ft. 3 in.) ruler of the Central Pacific's tiny Tonga Islands, was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire. The Empire's only other queen besides Elizabeth, she aided the Allied cause with a 500-strong handful of native warriors, some $500,000, and two Spitfires...
...fascinating possibilities. Some are military. Perched in the nose of a pilotless bomber, the tube could watch the terrain below, projecting what it sees on a screen in a guiding airplane many miles behind. By watching the screen, an operator who remains in faraway safety could steer the bomber cross-country by remote control...