Word: tented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Well done," said the Marine Corps when four prisoners in Pennsylvania's Eastern State Penitentiary completed their subcontract for wooden tent pegs. But the Philadelphia Record, delving into the business affairs of the convict-capitalists last week, was not so pleased. The reason: the four prisoners had grossed $58,300 in two years. In some months, their net profits ran as high as $450 apiece...
Over two years ago the Marine Corps contracted with the Pennsylvania State Department of Welfare for millions of tent pegs to be made in prison workshops at Eastern. Part of this fat contract was farmed out by the Welfare Department to the four inmates at Eastern, who operate their own hobby shop...
Wherever Lieut. General Sir Montagu George North Stopford led his XXXIII Corps last week, his flock of ducks went also. Every mess tent had its complement of parrots and parakeets. But even the Fourteenth's men thought last week that a sergeant had reached the ultimate. His new pride & joy was a 10-ft. python, maintained in sheer defiance of Hilaire Bellocs advice on pets: "A python, I should not advise; it needs a doctor for its eyes, and has the measles yearly...
...soon. Others, despite the best efforts of many skilled men, would die and lie forever in the alien volcanic ash of Iwo. A medical corpsman who had severe multiple abdominal wounds died as we stood beside his cot. One minute his heavy rasping breath could be heard throughout the tent. The next he was quiet and the sheet was pulled over his head. I saw a big marine who might have been a wrestler, judging by his huge neck and bulging biceps. His barrel chest heaved mightily as he fought to breathe and live. Said Pharmacist's Mate Billy...
While waiting for Dr. Silvis to finish, I walked back to the recovery tent. One man wore a plaster cast which covered him from toes to chest. His right arm had been amputated about six inches below the shoulder. He was the only amputation case in the ward, but one of the doctors said that there had been a lot in the past few days - several where two limbs had been lost, two cases where three limbs had been cut off. One of the latter had died after being evacuated...