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...rewards backfired badly. Bandits dug up bodies, reburied them until sure of being paid, and sometimes claimed reward money for remains which were not those of U.S. soldiers. Most graves were found through the patient questioning of local natives. One body was traced through the discovery of a short-snorter bill, another after quizzing a woman who wore an identification disk as an ornament, several through coolies who were found wearing shirts of parachute nylon...
...should be passed to prevent these scientists from further experiments. They should spend their time developing a turkey with four legs and two breasts so that the boys can enjoy themselves after they come home. . . ." ¶Outside Bombay, U.S. soldiers asked the aging Mahatma Gandhi to sign their "short-snorter" bills. The proud little Hindu, only one month out of British incarceration, refused to sign an Indian bank note. But when the soldiers handed him Chinese money, he gladly squiggled his signature...
...another room' a U.S. Army officer tackled Marshal Budenny for a signature on his short-snorter. Budenny refused to sign his name on Soviet currency with Lenin's picture. Then he refused to sign the currency of any sovereign nation. Finally he wrote his name on a plain slip of paper. Budenny and the American drank a toast. "May the next one be in Berlin," said the American. Bowing low, Budenny hoped the next would be much sooner than that...
...been-there" club reported from the far Northwest this week is the Short Roaders, composed of those who have ridden, crawled or hiked more than 500 miles over the Alaska Military High way. Its membership certificate: a Canadian dollar bill, inscribed and signed in the Short Snorter manner...
...recently acquired in currency change a "Short Snorter" (TIME, Aug. 31, 1942) dollar bill which I feel sure was passed inadvertently. . . . This letter reprinted in TIME would seem to offer the best potential medium of reaching the member involved before his predicament results in financial embarrassment...