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...Discipline. The Army is launching a new safety campaign with posters. Some of the posters point out the differences in the characteristics of different planes. "A P39 [Airacobra fighter] will climb like a homesick angel," reads one. "A bt-13 [Vultee trainer] won't." , Officially unmentioned but part & parcel of the safety campaign is a grapevine disciplinary system. The accident-preventers launch a word-of-mouth report that Pilot Joe Doe pulled a pretty dumb one when he groundlooped that P-4O. Presently the gossip reaches Pilot Joe Doe, who feels terrible...
Britons who get extra cigarets, food and candy from U.S. friends could not hope for much this year, either. According to British customs regulations, "unsolicited gifts, whether they include rationed foods or not, may be received from abroad by parcel post addressed to individuals: but no parcel may exceed five pounds gross weight or contain more than two pounds of any one foodstuff." Gift parcels must not be sent more often than is "reasonable" (interpreted generally as once a month). Parcels from the U.S. that don't conform to these regulations are confiscated and distributed to charity...
Gold & silver, banknotes, securities and precious stones can now fly on U.S. planes all the way from San Francisco to Singapore for $2.38 a pound v. 14? for parcel post. Passengers can make the trip (semimonthly flights alternate with the trip to Hong Kong) for $825 ($485 minimum by steamer). But the new 1,500-mile Manila-Singapore hop is not likely to be self-supporting for some time. In Manila everyone regards it as an extension of the U.S. diplomatic arm-right to the heart of Britain's Far Eastern trouble zone...
What a road home, like traveling over sand dunes, but we are on the way home. Arrive in camp in the evening singing: "We'll hang out our washing on the El Wakline." There's a brandy issue. Glorious mail, my stretcher has arrived and another parcel. Two gallons of water per man. Dig a hole, put my ground sheet in-makes a perfect bath and lie flat on my back in the water reading my post-of such is the Kingdom of Heaven...
...grisliness preceded the proposal. One day reviewers unwrapped a small, oblong parcel, found inside a miniature black cardboard coffin with a hinged lid. In it was a card reading, "Read GERMANY MUST PERISH! Tomorrow you will receive your copy." There was no identification of the sender...