Word: packs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hustle my full field pack 35 miles in eight hours, the toughest trial our infantry soldiers have to stand in training. I have a college degree and plenty of experience in bossing jobs, yet I am and will continue to be a private on noncombat duty. There are plenty of others in the same boat (six in this company...
...which makes a better "package" for would-be sponsors. This was just half the time allotted to his chief rival, the Good Will Hour's John J. Anthony (TIME, Dec. 2, 1940), who omnisciently resolves all problems with no help from a jury. Struggling to figure how to pack enough material into his shortened broadcast, Alexander observed: "This change presents a big problem to me." "Well," advised a studioman, "why don't you call John J. Anthony...
...dither (see p. 11), U.S. food packers gave one hard & fast reason: Government buyers are snapping up canned goods as if they expected every canner to close shop tomorrow. Last year the Government bought 75,000,000 cases of canned fruits and vegetables, a walloping 31% of the biggest pack on record. This year's buying schedules are bigger still-140,000,000 cases, over one-half the total pack...
...last week it looked as though the Government would ease up-at least for the time being. In a surprise move, it released 10,000,000 extra cases of the 1943 vegetable pack for civilian use. However surprising the news, U.S. can openers will hardly notice the difference-the new allotment amounts to two cans per year per citizen...
...passenger-cargo ships, cram-full of servicemen, war stuffs and civilians on war missions, started eastward across the Atlantic in early February. Somewhere at sea, U-boats, probably using wolf-pack tactics, picked them up, kept snapping at their keels. By night, a torpedo sank one of the ships; four days later, the other was sunk. Each ship went down in less than 30 minutes, Some lives were saved. This week Washington, announcing the sinkings, also announced the death toll: more than...