Word: px
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Newspapers & Frogs. Before classes began, the G.I.s sipped Cokes in the PX bar or sprawled with their books on the well-trimmed lawns bordering the former parade ground. In the afternoon they enthusiastically piled into converted class rooms and laboratories in the camp's red brick buildings, launched into their choices of 300 courses. Liberal arts and commerce curriculums attracted more than half, with science, fine arts, agriculture, engineering, journalism and education trailing in that order...
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Whoever is responsible for stocking the PX assumes lowly tastes on the part of the servicemen. I, a servicewife and a veteran of many PXs, can work myself into a huff just thinking about it. ... I'll wager nine out of ten comic books are bought in desperation. If people like to read and depend on it for relaxation, they'll read anything rather than nothing...
...Overseas, PX magazine supply conforms more closely to demand. At home it is more variable, depending on the X of distributors and PX officers...
...Army Post Exchange, formerly located in Perkins Hall with the Chaplains School, will open today in Austin Hall behind the Littauer Center of Public Administration. Open to all servicemen, the PX will supply all the incidental items of Army life, with food and recreation as an added attraction...