Word: px
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...camp. They also have long had the run of the post exchange, and for the Negro troops that, along with other privileges, was just too much. There was open bad feeling, a small scrap last week when the U.S. troops decided the Italians were getting the best of the PX's beer and cigarets...
...hours of U.S.-made AFRS transcriptions, 28½ hours of decommercialized U.S. network shows-flown in from the States. The rest is local material, ranging from the reading of war correspondence in the area to burlesques such as McGoo's Booze Hour ("Next time you visit your PX take home a handy family-size container of McGoo's Old Man in the convenient 60-gallon drum...
Built like a moving van (around 5 ft. 10 in., 200 Ibs.), Lou Diamond has one of the most notable paunches in the Marines. Beer did it. At Quantico he regularly stationed a detail to buy him a case when the PX opened at 4 o'clock, knocked it off, one gulp to the bottle...
Toilet articles will be issued, including a razor and blades, but GI toothbrushes are rumored to be somewhat flabby. Electric shavers are usually useable, but are often inconvenient in barracks. Extra socks, which may be need, can best be obtained at the PX. A radio is allowed, but must be small...
...asked to postscript that the boys aren't unanimous in their approval of the "chow," although there are no really serious complaints that no swill is served. (It is sold in the PX...