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...PX sales, once the chief source of black-marketeering, have been cut by 20% within the year under a system that requires a purchaser to fill out forms in triplicate for even a package of razor blades...
...Pyongyang, capital of Red North Korea. He fled south with retreating United Nations troops, found himself in the teeming southern Korean coastal city of Pusan. Like thousands of other jobless refugees, Han opened a tiny store specializing in black-market supplies filched from U.S. military ware houses and PX stores, luxury goods smuggled from Japan. Soon Han muscled his way to the top of the pack, sported a smashed nose and livid knife scars as testimony to his ruthlessness. Not satisfied with being a middleman, he branched out into large-scale smuggling. Han's fleet of speedboats, powered...
...earthy female Falstaff with Falstaff's coarsely skeptical views of war, honor and courage. However, the Thirty Years' War is on, and since the profit motive is no laughing matter, Mother Courage cashes in on the troops. Trundling her wagon, a kind of mobile 17th century PX, behind the shifting battlefronts, she sells shoes, shirts and booze to the soldiers...
...please its customers, the European Exchange System (2,918 branches), biggest of 14 PX districts, has built seven PX drive-in snack bars along West German Autobahnen with such names as Java Junction and Dine-A-Mite. Over the past ten years the European System has nearly doubled its stock of items, which now includes Italian fashions, men's custom-tailored suits, frozen pheasants and ten different brands of can openers. The PX system also includes barbershops, delicatessens, auto parts shops, dry cleaning and laundry service, and shoe, watch and radio repair shops...
...what pleases the soldier most about the PX is its prices, which run about 20% below U.S. retail prices. Reason: the PX does not have to pay income taxes, gets free shipment of goods overseas, has its stores built for it, spends little for advertising or promotion. Clothing sells for 15% to 50% less than in the U.S., watches for 55% less, quality cameras for up to 45% less. And by buying from the PX, the soldier is actually dealing himself a bonus: all PX profits go to military welfare funds...