Word: gripings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard men may gripe as much as they want to about conditioning four times a week, but take it from one who knows, that training is well worth while. Lieutenant Bill Neufeld, former Freshman track coach now stationed at the North Carolina Naval Pre-Flight School, can say that from his experience in both institutions...
...business. Thus for months all planes headed from Miami and Brownsville to the Canal Zone have been so jam-packed with U.S. diplomats, soldiers, construction workers and South American priority traffic that many plain citizens and tons of cargo have been left behind. In Peru the natives gripe at the coolness of some U.S. airmen, get peeved because U.S. operators do not dish out free rides as the Nazis did, get mad when families of Latin American officials are pushed off airliners in favor of servants of U.S. travelers. When the important U.S.-South American parleys were held...
...medication. There is also griping-an extremely important morale builder, says Private Hargrove. Typical soldier's gripe: "Our battery has the worst food in the Army. We've got the worst sergeant in the battery. No kidding, though, our platoon makes all the others look crummy." Private Bushemi, photographer, hazes a mess sergeant: "You know the one thing that's missing from this meal-the one thing that would make it perfect?" "Ice cream?" asks the sergeant. "Chloroform," says Bushemi...
...latter point, I feel that we ex-movers of mass merchandise have a really legitimate gripe. Personally, while still not 40, I have created and directed the advertising which has sold billions of dollars worth of food products. Yet letters of application to OFF, OPA, WPB, etc., bring either no reply or a polite "Thank you for your offer of service during the present emergency. We will keep you in mind." Letters to the Army and Naval Reserve bring forth the same reply. Incidentally, no commission was requested, and I don't mean the 15% variety. Recruiting offices? They...
Many of the young British hopefuls are none too happy about the Air Corps methods. Typical gripe: "Men are eliminated in quick succession and at the present rate only half the men will have won their spurs when this Overseas Training scheme comes to an end. . . . Time is being wasted, for there's no doubt that the majority of the eliminated cadets will take the whole course again either in Canada or at a training school under R.A.F. supervision...