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...rode around in jeeps. The soldier assigned to regiment wished he was farther back at division, where it was safer, where there were showers, Korean houseboys to do the laundry, and movies almost every night. The man at division figured the corps headquarters soldier "had it knocked" with his PX, his girls, and "tak-san" (much) beer. At corps, they envied Army's warm buildings, big PX, recreation programs, coffee and doughnut canteens, and "Stateside" Red Cross girls. The G.I.s at Army headquarters would rather have been in Japan, or else close to the front collecting four rotation points...
...hits the deck of a barracks built of local materials by local labor. He breakfasts on food bought in Newfoundland, and turns to on a work detail with tools and equipment supplied by local merchants. Taking a break, he eats a candy bar or sips a Coke which the PX has bought in the province. After hours, he catches a local bus, takes his local girl to a local movie, and buys her coffee and doughnuts or beer at a local snackbar or tavern. Housing, feeding and entertaining American G.I.s has become Newfoundland's fourth largest industry-after fisheries...
...They are being paid at the rate of $9,000,000 a year, which equals the payroll of the entire mining industry in the province. The U.S. will make some $2,500,000 worth of local purchases in the coming year, plus another $500,000 worth of PX supplies. Such incidentals as a $100,000 charter fee for a motor vessel to transport island supplies, almost $87,000 rental paid by off-base servicemen and $16,000 tuition to local schools attended by children of military personnel, help to give the economy a powerful shot...
...fight) she is no longer eligible for entry into the U.S.; our children are only eligible for entry "based on the facts in each case"; she can no longer use military occupation currency (dollars); she can no longer buy groceries at the commissary and items at the PX; she is not eligible for medical care . . . They are generous enough, however, to allow her your insurance and other piddling compensations. But as far as being your wife-the Government no longer recognizes...
Tito even took the implied advice of Copic and Dzumhur. By decree, he stripped the luxurious commissars of such negative phenomena as their PX cards, gas rations, special food and clothing allowances, villas and other amenities (TIME...