Word: messing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last to go was calm, straight-mouthed Captain Elliott Buckmaster. Next to last was the captain's little brown-skinned mess boy. He lowered the boy on a line, then followed him down. The boy was hysterical when he reached the water. The captain dragged him to a raft, pushed him up before he climbed on himself...
...Never a dull moment," said the Marines the following morning as they broke out their shaving kits and washbasins. "Did you ever read The Forty Days of Musa Dagh?" asked one officer reflectively as he sorted out his mess gear at breakfast table. Life is like that on Guadalcanal...
...Rainier, miles away from regular mess facilities, mountain troops lived on Ration K for days, came through fit as fiddles. At Indio, Calif., where the temperature ran as high as 122° in the shade, a five-day trial gave equally nourishing results. The menu was surprisingly varied. Breakfast consisted of enriched biscuits, compressed graham crackers, veal luncheon meat, fruit bar, malted milk dextrose tablets, soluble coffee, sugar, chewing gum, four cigarets. Dinner was much the same, with the addition of powdered bouillon-but without coffee or fruit bar. Supper: biscuits, cheese, fruit-juice powder, chocolate bar, sugar, chewing...
...this staff-aptly self-named the "Human Guinea Pig Club"-is served the Army's strangest noon mess (every day except Sunday). They may get anything from tomato bread and soybean sausages to eleven-year-old beef. Usually the fare is good, sometimes it is gagging; but good or bad, it is never just ration spinach and to hell with it. Due to these luncheon tests and the field trials a number of changes in Ration K have been made since it was first stowed in a knapsack late last year. Recent innovations: cheese for meat in the supper...
Boss of this crowd is tall, swarthy Sherman Harrison Dalrymple who has been in the middle of Akron's rubber mess ever since 1919, is now the president of the powerful U.R.W. Once a rubber worker himself, Boss Dalrymple knows it is tough, hot, backbreaking work. So he wants his members to work less and earn more...