Word: px
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fiction," insubordination and poor leadership. But whatever weaknesses Herbert's case against his two immediate superior officers may contain, the evidence he presents against the Army's conduct as such is overwhelming, triangulated as it is by all the press reports, the My Lai trials and the PX scandals that have come before...
...PX newsstands are filled with...
Robbins began merchandising mirth in 1949, after he and his late brother-in-law, Burt Baskin, sold their separate dairy-store chains and began manufacturing ice cream. Their creamy dreams had begun in the New Hebrides, where Baskin was in charge of a Navy PX during World War II. He traded a Jeep to the supply officer of a visiting aircraft carrier in exchange for a big ice cream freezer and set about mixing some of the exotic local fruits into precedent-setting flavors...
Expanding Monopoly. The narrative that emerged from the subcommittee hearings went like this: early in the Viet Nam War, Crum befriended three civilian officials of the Army-Air Force Regional Exchange in Saigon. They were in charge of transferring PX functions from the Navy to their own branch, and Crum put them up in a $1,600-a-month Saigon villa. He gave them a chef and maid service and provided them with large quantities of liquor and women. His reward: a $1,000,000 contract for jukeboxes in all American installations in Viet...
...began to expand in earnest, Crum's PX monopolies did too. Along with his contracts for coin-operated amusements, he wangled the exclusive distributorship for Mandarin Textiles' Dynasty fashions in PXs and NCO clubs. He became a representative for the James B. Beam Distilling Co. of Chicago and the Carling Brewing Co. of Cleveland. He also kept up his lucrative side trade in such goods as freezers and air conditioners, many of which were conveniently-and illegally -stored on a base under the eye of his good friend, General Cole, the Senators were told...