Word: serviceman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brightest spot at the Toy Fair was the game business. Less harried by shortages than the toy industry, the game industry is doing more business than ever before. It is riding an Army & Navy boom: practically every serviceman's kit includes a pack of cards, a checker board or a backgammon set, and the U.S. Army recently ordered 1,500,000 dice at one clip...
Thrashing their way through the hundred-odd titles suggested by far-flung enthusiasts for the new serviceman's weekly, harrassed Crimson editors finally came up for breath last night, with the winning title for the paper, and the name of the reciplent of a $25 war bond...
...Into effect went the Sparkman Act (after Alabama's Congressman John J. Sparkman), which tries to guarantee that no soldier shall return to find his home foreclosed, his insurance policies lapsed and his family out in the street. The new law bolsters earlier attempts to protect the serviceman, plugs the loopholes, sets up as solid a protective fence as any soldier could ask for. Outstanding provisions...
...Home mortgages cannot be foreclosed without the court's permission. Nor can personal property bought on the installment plan, unless it is something like automobiles, that might be worn out in the meantime. (Even then, the courts will see that the serviceman gets a fair deal...
...giver who takes the poll to heart will send any serviceman a cribbage board unless he specifically requests it, nor burden an infantryman with a portable phonograph. He will steer clear of diaries, shun warm bathrobes, spurn a waterproof money belt for any but sailors...