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When Company D awoke one morning last week, night rain had streaked the canvas tents, soaked the company street, filled the water buckets that hung on pine rails before each tent. The men were pleased: whatever winter, mud and the Army might inflict on them that day, they would not have to contend with choking Georgia dust when they paraded their tanks past...
...wood. "Dismount!" Sergeant Pullen and his men took a quick snack of sandwiches and apples, remounted, ran peacefully back to Company D's tank park. In column-of-three, the tanks edged precisely into place, each centred over a white stake. Major Kengla repaired to the orderly tent, saw that his men had hot coffee and a delayed lunch. He fidgeted. Everybody in Company D fidgeted. Sergeants made up excuses to drift into the orderly room, drifted out unsatisfied. Then the word came, first t'6 Major Kengla, and then to the company...
Everywhere that there was a big camp going up, there was an Alexandria in the South. In Florida, 15,000 men were throwing up a tent-city at Camp Blanding (for 75,000 soldiers) on a flat stretch of white sand 48 miles by automobile from Jacksonville. Some 3,500 of the workmen poured into Starke (normal population: 1,480), eight miles from the camp. Starke's rents jumped from $19-25 to $50-$60. A waitress paid her boss $5 a week to sleep in a restaurant kitchen. Land around the camp which once sold...
...Manhattan, the Dexter Fellows Tent, Circus Saints & Sinners Club of America, feasted Man About Literature Christopher Morley; inducted him as "fall guy" amid props that left little doubt of the variety of Author Morley's achievements...
...that night Private Rockefeller piled wearily into his bunk in a tent with five other soldiers. Having got through that needle's eye, he may well have reflected, the rest of the year's training would be, comparatively, heaven...