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...needed few supplies from home. The postwar exodus of their wives & children (and of the wives & children of our other overseas personnel as well) to join them abroad changed all that. They needed all sorts of goods & services, most of which were in short supply throughout the world, and TLI had to set up a global shopping service to provide them...
...date, Personal Shopping (which operates solely for the benefit of TLI bureaumen) has been a constantly expanding service, and Buckner, who has to purchase many of the "rush" items himself, is now quite at home in the unmentionables departments of Manhattan's stores. He has had orders for almost everything, from washable dolls with eyes that open & close to automobile jack assemblies and girdles. The one constant in his business, however, is the three most requested items from all of TLI's bureaus throughout the world: cigarets, coffee, vitamin pills...
Babies' diapers are Buckner's principal headache. Hard to get abroad (Parisian infants have to be shored up with newspapers), they are hard to get in the U.S. too-as many of you undoubtedly know. Buckner is accustomed to receiving frantic notes from expectant TLI mothers announcing wistfully: "I will expect the diapers when I see them!" He is generally able to assure them that the diapers will be there ahead of the baby...