Word: px
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average age, experience, and interests make them veteran females as well--represent all of the services, some of the overseas theaters, and both the castes. They were nurses, photographic technicians, radar experts, Link trainer instructors, and at least one spent her time chatting with the boys at a local PX. Cynthia Brott, Radcliffe '48, spent two years overseas in Iceland and England wielding needled and syringe with the Army Nurse Corps. Anne Kennedy, one of the Wellesley's more nature women, ground out the war at Wright Field, Ohio, as a photographic technician in an optical research laboratory. Each...
...enough to fill a five-foot bookshelf. There had been a big mistake in the inventory: instead of the advertised $7 million worth of photographic equipment there was only $1.5 million worth. Congestion and bottlenecks were everywhere. Many purchasers went hungry rather than stand for hours in a PX line to buy food. After seven and a half hours of business, only 119 sales had been made, only $27,384.26 worth of merchandise sold...
...Contrary to the impression given by Col, Neville," says Aldrich, "I believe that the majority of officers in the Army made a conscientious and largely successful effort to insure a fair distribution of PX supplies, to refrain from monopolizing the USO queens, to spare their men from standing in long lines, and to get them out of trouble when it was necessary...
...Walking PX. In Sendai, Japan, officials charged baggageless Shoji Nishimoto with illegal possession of U.S. goods when they found cached on his person: one extra pair of trousers, two shirts, one sweater, one mackinaw, one mirror, one bath towel, a complete shaving set, one Navy flashlight, twelve packs of cigarets, 28 cans, packages and bars of candy and food...
...supposed to get drunk. But the lousy cognac tasted just as lousy to me as a civilian as it did when I was a soldier. I had it all planned to say something nasty to the lieutenant who had kept us waiting around unnecessarily while he went to the PX for his rations. But I didn...