Word: px
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Part of this volume, the committee found, had indeed come from luxury goods. Example: The Marine PX at Quantico, Va. had refrigerators, $250 cameras, television sets and outboard motors in stock...
...fool knows it takes more than a coupla hours to make any decent broad." The company commander suffers terribly because his wife, who plays bridge with the adjutant's wife, always knows what is going to happen before he does. The eternal yardbird, the eager second lieutenant, the PX floozie and the latrine lawyer are all old stuff to anecdote audiences, but "At War With The Army" presents them with such freshman and realism that they come to life again. Even the jokes, aged as they may be, are still pretty consistently funny...
Nostalgic G.I.s in the audience licked their PX ice cream cones and marveled that a man could be so close to home 6,000 miles away. Their tabi-soxer* friends chewed gum (U.S. style) and snickered (Japanese style) at the strange way some of their sisters made a living...
When Berlin was divided into sectors, the Kaniss family found itself living in the Russian zone, just beyond the frontier of the U.S. zone. Erich's older sister, a blonde, buxom girl of 17, quickly found an American friend. She brought home cigarets, chocolate and PX supplies. On the proceeds from these, they lived...
...Dartmouth the college runs a beer hall just like a PX where you can go and tear yourself down after you've been building yourself up on the snowy slopes," mumbled Vag to his drinking companion. "But on second thought this isn't so bad." He made a significant gesture towards the glassed-in counter which housed slices of Swiss cheese, salami, bologna, knackwurst, brockwurst, blood pudding and other samples of the Wursthaus larder...