Word: messing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tiger was a mere wisp of a man, but he had no intention of taking a ribbing from some Ivy League Privates. So he got mean and wrathful and sent some of the boys to see the mess sergeant because their beds were a quarter of an inch from the crack in the floor that stood as the great divide. Two nights later we ate Tiger. Not literally, of course, but it was delicious. In the midst of a black and tortured night march, we broke into a sombre dirge. "Hold that Tiger, rrrrrrooomph, hold that Tiger, rrrrromph. The Tiger...
...bowling alley's polished lanes were unscratched. No patient had slept in the sleek new 50-bed hospital, fitted with X-rays and incubators. A mess hall (capacity: 450) had finer equipment than any hotel in Montana, but nothing and nobody to serve. A dozen boys and girls shouted down empty corridors of a school-house built for 200. Lloyd Badgley's store had piles of canned goods, a soda fountain, gleaming meat refrigeration, no customers...
Main factors: WPB had learned about bottlenecks the hard way, from earlier struggles with plants and materials. WPB's Vice Chairman Charles E. Wilson personally intervened in the manpower mess, personally toured some of the bad spots, personally supervised emergency measures to heal them...
...between replenishment periods, we deduced Radar; was right. Gave them desired directions and they mentioned, (all the while glancing surreptiously at passing uniforms) that there seemed to be possibilities here. Trying in vain to match their eagerness I assented and rushed home in order not to miss second mess...
...majors, or two lieutenant colonels to a room. Colonels can live alone. The Army will pay for rent, gas, light and telephone up to a total of $4 a day. Officers will still get their $1.25 a day for food but not the extra $21 a month. A mess will soon open in a West End hotel for all personnel...