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...there were to be postwar equivalents of the flapper and the lounge lizard, the short skirts and Oxford bags of the 1920's, they had not evolved yet. The only really distinctive style note was the transitory costume-half uniform, half civilian clothes-of discharged servicemen. The new automobile, refrigerator, and radiant heating system were still just pictures in advertisements; whiskey was 65% neutral grain spirits, and butter was hard to find...
Some thought it had. Religious News Service talked about the "large number of applications pouring into seminaries and theological schools from servicemen" as "one of the war's most striking aftermaths." But the American Association of Theological Schools found no change in overall enrollments, and ten of twelve leading seminaries queried by TIME reported last week no significant upturn...
From China came a steady trickle of evidence that the conduct of U.S. servicemen is not much better there than it has been in Europe (TIME, Nov. 19). TIME Correspondent William Gray reported last week...
...marked them as fall guys. Pickpockets and petty thieves prey on them. More ostensibly respectable Chinese gyp them openly. When Navymen began swarming ashore at Shanghai, the swank Park Hotel jacked its liquor prices 50%. Nightclub proprietors-Chinese and foreign-vie with each other in trying to take U.S. servicemen for all they can get. Ricksha drivers double and treble their fares. Waiters sneer at anything less than four times the conventional...
Arms & Surpluses. What finally did the trick was the war. Several months before Pearl Harbor, American servicemen joined Canadians in transforming the island into a Gibraltar. Before war's end, the U.S. and Canada poured hundreds of millions into Newfoundland for bases, barracks, dockyards, airports...