Word: waacs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is more drinking than formerly-men about to be inducted drink the most-but little drunkenness.-Almost nobody wears evening clothes. Uniforms run up to 50% (mostly enlisted men) in the Broadway area; average 25% (mostly officers) on the East Side, with here & there a WAVE or a WAAC. Service men seldom pay a cover charge, often get special rates. Prices everywhere have climbed...
...House Committee prepared to throw in a few restrictions: 1) WAAC officers may command women only; 2) WAACs may not draw dependency pay from soldier husbands; 3) the WAAC's commanding officer, photogenic, 38-year-old Colonel Oveta Gulp Hobby, may not rise above that rank. Thus with the, WAAC strength headed toward 375,000, Colonel Hobby will have more troops under her administrative control than several lieutenant generals...
Typical was the case of nine women from Syracuse, N.Y., who were told by an Army officer they could live at home after training, go back to aircraft-warning-service jobs in their home town with WAAC pay. A month ago, they were ordered to leave home, take up barracks quarters in a one-time Syracuse University dormitory...
...nine demurred in no uncertain terms. One WAAC's husband prepared a bill of particulars: The barracks were unsanitary, a firetrap had a latrine (made for men) with some fittings that did not belong in a WAAC establishment...
Warned in time, the Army beat a hasty retreat. To each WAAC who had understood that she could stay home and still be in the Army, the service handed out an honorable discharge...