Word: depots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sergeant First Class Delbert Jenkins holds the unofficial title of oldest enlisted man in the U.S. Army. Last week, at an Engineer depot in Yokohama, Jenkins explained his unusual position. He saw 16 months of service in World War I, then left the Army to earn more money (as a railroad man and part-time farmer). After raising a family of nine children (he now has 15 grandchildren), Jenkins wangled his way back into the Army in 1942. "I pestered the Army until they let me in again," he said, "to free some younger man for a job where youth...
...village idiot had hexed Baker Briand's flour, that the flour had been packed in fertilizer sacks, that rats in the grain elevator had contaminated the flour. The police knew better. They had traced the flour back from Briand's bakeshop through the government-controlled flour depot to a mill near Poitiers, nearly 300 miles away...
...enlists, only to be marooned on a tiny South Pacific island supply depot. There he types reams in a confessional diary, relating his failure as a human being to that of all the other middle-class Mr. Smiths who, in Thoreau's phrase, "lead lives of quiet desperation." He decides he has never been his own man. His values have come f.o.b. Detroit, New York, Hollywood. Instead of the surges of the heart, he has lived by the slogans of the hucksters. One night a confused sentry mistakes him for a Jap, sends him to meet the man-sized...
...only other U.S. tank producer in full swing, has just begun to produce an improved version of the postwar General Patton tank (plus modernizing several hundred World War II Pershings, mostly for Korea). Principal trouble: the arsenal is used as a research and development center and as a repair depot, in addition to its production duties. World War II experience was that those three functions do not mix well...
...parents, Antonio and Maria Cocozza, had a six-room house and brought up their only child with pampering indulgence. The elder Cocozza, a decorated World War I combat veteran on a total disability pension, is a semi-invalid; his wife worked as a seamstress in the Army quartermaster depot. Freddy, as everyone called their son, was a spoiled, reckless kid: one of his teachers still remembers him with a shudder as "one of the biggest bums that ever came into the public-school system...