Word: scouted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alaska Scouts grew from a nucleus of four hand-picked infantrymen. Organized a month before Pearl Harbor, they remain a small and select outfit. A few Scouts are Aleuts (see cut, third from right), Indians, or half-breeds. Some, like Larry ("Diamond Jim") Beloff (fourth from right), who operates a gold mine, are oldtimers in Alaska. But most are from the States, are principally Westerners who went to Alaska when they were adventurous boys. There is even one Scout from Brooklyn...
Captain Robert Thompson, who commands the Scouts, picks his men for one chief quality: ability to live for long periods off the barren Alaska land, subzero blasts to mosquito-clotted summer mugginess. Their physical endurance is far beyond the ordinary soldier's; one Scout walked 90 miles over corrugated tundra in three days. Scouts use Trapper Nelson packs instead of the Army's steel-framed rucksack, shun Army K and C rations for dehydrated beef and other foods which weigh less. A Scout's greatest fear is that he may fall through the ice, numb his hands...
...Battle of Attu, Alaska Scouts met Japs for the first time: one was killed, another wounded. But on most missions they operate separately from the Army. One result is that they do not care much about being around people. A Scout went in to see Major General Eugene M. Landrum after a long absence alone in the mountains. The General wondered if the Scout wanted a rest. "No, sir," he said, "I'll get some rations and head back to the mountains this afternoon...
...program came out of a Sioux Falls, S.D. movie house. There it drew big, delighted crowds on once-dull Monday nights, was tied in with teapot station KELO. The enthusiastic contestants came from nearby Army camps, one barracks competing against another. A wandering advertising production scout named Tom Wallace had no trouble persuading the advertising agency Benton & Bowles that it was just the thing for their Maxwell House Coffee account...
...Coke Is a Coke Is a Coke. In Baltimore, a Boy Scout helping out in an OPA office put a nickel in an automatic coke dispenser. Out popped the cup, down poured the drink. He picked it up. Out popped another cup, down poured a drink. He picked it up. Out popped a cup, down poured a drink. He yelled for help. A line formed. The machine automatically dispensed one hundred and forty-seven drinks...