Word: depot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With plenty of pride the Navy formally announced last week that it had been operating for months from a mammoth new base in California about 80 miles north of Los Angeles. The once sleepy little town of Hueneme (pronounced Wyneemee) now harbors the major advanced depot for Pacific operations...
...Vinegar Valley. Serving this single great depot, carting inflowing supplies to their proper storage, is the SS & VV ("Sling Something & Vinegar Valley") Railway, 17 miles of track built by U.S. soldiers...
Typical of the detailed preparations are the printing presses rumbling in a converted stable not far from the "Vinegar Valley" depot. There U.S. soldiers are turning out maps for invasion armies...
...calm aplomb, have turned over most of the manor house to U.S. officers. Relations between manor and mess are happy, especially so since the day U.S. troops pumped out the manor house's flooded basement and discovered my lord's lost hunting horn. In still another English depot, covering...
Only a small part of the stock is listed in the catalogue. Would-be customers can see the rest at the A.A.F. Specialized Depot in Memphis, Tenn. The depot expects to have even a bigger variety of stock as time goes on, may end up with a mailorder business bigger than Sears, Roebuck...