Word: dix
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jackie Coogan, 26, got his Hollywood board to draft him ahead of his normal order, reported at Fort Ord, Calif., passed his medical (see cut), and put in for transfer to the Air Corps. Professional Golfer Ed ("Porky") Oliver flew North from a Florida tournament, turned up at Fort Dix, N. J., along with Playwright Sidney Kingsley (Dead End, The World We Make}. Private Kingsley welcomed his year in the Army, proposed to write a play about...
Also just take yourself out to Fort Dix for a pleasant day's excursion and watch the workmen lazily going about their labors as though they were not at all interested in whether the plumbing ever got finished. And should you enjoy the sight of mud, travel no further. All the mud in the country is now concentrated at Fort Dix...
...mobilized last fall, Private Earl was ordered to report in Seattle. But he was selling magazines in New Jersey, got his orders too late to join the regiment before it sailed for Hawaii. Because he was technically mobilized and liable to arrest, Private Earl prudently presented himself at Fort Dix...
...Jersey regiment finally accepted him, but not for long. Army men recalled a law that forbade the transfer of National Guardsmen from one State to another. Private Earl was put under technical arrest. He stayed on at Fort Dix for five months without pay, picked up small change from kindly officers who hired him as their dog robber...
This notice, by order of Colonel Joseph W. Becker, was last week posted on all company bulletin boards of the 174th (National Guard) Infantry at Fort Dix, N. J. In Company K it met horrified eyes. Noncoms gave it as their considered opinion that Colonel Becker had outdone even their genial company commander, Captain Kelsey H. Jewett, in babying the privates, announced that, sooner than turn father, mother and big brother, they would rather be privates themselves. Company K seethed with reports that as many as 18 sergeants and corporals had determined to take a stand on this thing. Colonel...