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...specialized buying varies with the season and the place where he is stationed. When the Army had its pay raised there was a tremendous run on fine watches (at a little over half outside cost). There is always a run on pen-&-pencil sets, cameras, portable radios, sentimental "sweetheart pillows," with two hearts intertwined. For 3,000 standard items, Exchange Service sets a top price for P-X wholesale buying, thus does a big job of chain procurement. For the rest, the price is up to the local exchange officer. With his low markup, he knows that he will...
...windproof cigaret lighter gets a swell rating from 55% of the Army and 63% of the Navy (but fluid is not mailable). Other favorites: cigarets, leather wallets with insignia on them, pen & pencil sets, stationery, polarized sun glasses. The boys even want shoe brushes and razor-blade sharpeners. Special Army favorites: good regulation shirts and socks and extra government issue caps (of the right branch). But as Army and Navy provide full outfits for all except officers it is better not to send clothes unless specifically requested...
...have a 2,000-lb. bomb to drop." Before the plane came over the 20-ft. white X on the pock-marked ground a mile from the observers, its bomb doors opened. The bomb flopped out. The men in the tower could see it, a short pencil line hanging horizontal for a fraction of a second. Then its nose jerked down as the tail fins caught...
...little shopkeepers with the wet-pencil bookkeeping know even less about price control than about their own business. Most of them have as hard a time figuring ceilings as they do making money. But all of them can read the big, black prices pasted on the chain-store windows, know they can't sell much over these practical if unofficial levels...
Though their riveted M35 sustained some shell hits, no rivets bounced about inside. Main fault in the tanks: an incendiary bullet, stuck in the pencil-thin crevice between the revolving turret and hull, froze the turret tight. The tankers unfroze the turret with an acetylene torch. (This defect has been corrected in the newer M-45, which have a collar over the crevice...