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Wives and mothers may rejoice at the poll popularity of homemade cookies and other eats, but the unfeeling Navy Department puts in: "Stale or mashed cakes, cookies reduced to crumbs and spoiled fruit do not make for a Merry Christmas for boys overseas." Instead, Mother should send a sewing kit (in Army & Navy sonny wants it). The Navy likes overnight bags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT HOME & ABROAD: Christmas in the Foxholes | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

They learned to brush their teeth, wash their faces, shave and rinse out socks in two inches of water in a mess kit. The mention of British service biscuits brought wry smiles to their faces. Said one hardy biscuit eater: "You could dunk them in water and they'd soak it up all right. Then they'd be just as hard as ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: First to Fight the Germans | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

...last week the hero had half emerged from scattered tons of sequoia chips. With Blue-Ox Babe slung lightly on his shoulders, he looked as if he could indeed pick his teeth with a pine log. Sculptor Barnes says: "I'd like to do Kit Carson too, and Buffalo Bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Tree Carver | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

...Dutch airfield 150 Nazis in full flying kit were drawn up as though for pay-day parade, unmindful that July 4 was a special day in the non-Nazi world, a day when something extraordinary might happen. It did. The Nazis were caught flat-footed on their airfield by a tight-flying contingent of twelve Douglas twin-motored bombers, half of them manned by Americans, half by Britons, which sent the Germans scuttling for cover amid bomb bursts and the firecracker chatter of machine guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: To Fetch a Grunt | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

Procter & Gamble, full of years (it was founded in 1837) and good works, denied the whole kit & caboodle of charges countered with some of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Floating Battle | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

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