Word: furloughs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even so, there will still be some rather choice amenities for the conquerors. The U.S. Army intends to hang on to Bavaria's two best ski resorts - Garmisch and Berchtesgaden-which it seized for furlough centers. Some of Germany's choicest hunting grounds, forbidden to the vanquished for the past six years, will still be reserved for American sportsmen hankering after a bit of pheasant, roebuck or rabbit...
...after five months abroad, she planned to turn temporarily from gallivanting-although not simply to rest. She had to hurry East, to entertain her old friend, Queen Juliana of Holland, and then, after settling down at Hyde Park, she had to dictate her book. She planned nothing but a furlough. As long as she has the strength, Eleanor Roosevelt will be laboring over the horizon, shaking hands energetically with reception committees and discovering hopeful evidence of a better world to come...
Semifinal Round. In Gaffney, S.C., a soldier home on furlough filed applications with Probate Judge W. R. Douglas to marry four girls, said he would make the crucial choice later...
...relatively mild winter. But British families do without meat because there is not enough coal to swap for Argentine beef; French steel mills stand idle for lack of coal and coke. The Dutch army all but disappeared over the holidays, when the government gave its soldiers an eleven-day furlough to save precious coal. Sweden sells its high-grade iron ore to Communist Poland instead of supplying its old customer Britain, because the Poles can trade coal in exchange, the British cannot. The Poles, taking advantage of Sweden's need, get ballbearings and generators in exchange, to nourish...
...year. This compares to around $2,700 for the American doughfoot. The asker gets an allowance of about 12? a month, which he somewhat bitterly calls his tras parasi (shave money). The asker's boots and uniform look awful. The asker looks particularly bad on furlough. The army, very practically, gives him a sloppy, patched-up uniform for leave, so he won't tear up his fighting clothes. But there is a proud spirit in the Turkish army, and that's what pays off. For every place in the original contingent to Korea, there were six volunteers...