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Though he could no longer go to Germany, McLane found he could still make plenty of money there. To PX snack bars he sold, at 21.5? per qt., 250,000 qts. of chocolate milk monthly, all labeled "minimum butter fat content 2.6%." Independent tests in German laboratories showed it was actually skim milk that cost only 10^ per qt. to produce. Though he was forced to cut his price, McLane held on to orders for other dairy products, meat, fresh fruits and vegetables. As he blandly explained, he got and kept his contracts by bribing purchasing officials. Says...
...purchasing agents for the U.S. armed forces who handed out fat Government contracts in return for personal kickbacks of 1% to 5%. All told, McLane said, he paid The Organization some $235,000 by depositing money to an account in Zurich's Credit Suisse. Out of twelve PX officials McLane named, only one, Charles E. Wilson, was tried. He was convicted, fined $5,000 and sentenced to six months in jail...
...Revenge. At Army bases, hundreds pressed against the barbed-wire fences, waving MPCs and begging soldiers to sell them anything from bedsheets to underwear. Outside of Seoul's white-bricked PX, runny-nosed Korean shoeshine boys wailed far into the night: "Hey, G.I., no momma, no poppa, you catch my G.I. money okay? Don't be a sonavabitch...
Visitors to Stallings Field in Kinston, N.C. recently have found a strange building standing smack in front of the PX: a neat white outhouse with two large signs bearing the words "Rumor Factory." The outhouse and signs are the work of Truman Miller, 43, president of Kinston's Serv-Air Aviation Corp. and a man who knows his flyers. "Any airfield, from the repair shops to the soda fountain, is a rumor factory," says Miller. "They fly in and out and leave the damndest stories you ever heard...
...hundred Americans and 437 French employees were riffed in the process; the savings would cut USRO's administrative expenses in Paris by 50%. Other Americans suffered drastic cuts in what the British call "perks" (short for perquisites). FOA staffers will no longer get free bus service to the PX stores, and if they make less than $6,000 a year, must cross the Atlantic in cabin, not first class, with the Government paying the bill. Free French lessons are out; so are chauffeur-driven limousines for all but the six top executives...