Word: mung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would require a 17½-mile perimeter to keep it out of the range of 81-mm. mortars; a full U.S. division would be required for the job. Lacking such manpower, U.S. troops are improvising. At Quinhon's airstrip, officers and enlisted men alike have begun hiring rugged Mung tribesmen for $5 a month-paid out of their own pockets-for sentry duty. Such an arrangement is hardly S.O.P. for the Army, but in South Viet Nam, as one Defense Department official puts it, "there is no book-nothing fits...
...Northland Foods. Paulucci adhered to a two-point credo: "Cut out the middleman" and "Take advantage of waste." Shopping for bargains around the world, Chun King buys beef from Australia and shrimp from Ecuador, contracts directly with Chippewa Indians for wild rice and with Oklahoma and Texas farmers for mung beans, from which bean sprouts are grown. The simpler ingredients, such as celery and mushrooms, Chun King produces for itself-and here the profiting from waste enters. When Paulucci found out that the dirt in which the mushrooms grew was good for only one crop yet still contained rich compost...