Word: wac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...court (two white WACs, five white male officers, two male Negro officers) listened for two days to testimony, heard the ranking Negro WAC officer, Lieut. Tenola T. Stoney, when asked if she had noted any difference between the handling of black and white WACs at Lovell, answer: "I have not." When all the testimony was in, the court retired, soon reached its verdict: for each of the four, a year of hard labor, dishonorable discharge...
...Dominion's War Assets Corp., charged with disposing of war surpluses, offered some 19,000 obsolete steel Army helmets at 49? each. Canadians were uninterested, even when WAC suggested that the helmets would make good flower pots, feeding bowls for pets, bird baths or hens' nests. It began to look as if the helmets would have to be junked...
Then a boy saw some of the helmets in a Vancouver store. He bought one, spread the news around. In two hours, the store's stock of helmets was gone. WAC saw the light. Last week every one of WAC's helmets had been peddled-to small fry with a yen for playing Commando. So. had 47,000 dummy wooden rifles, originally designed for training purposes. WAC said it could have sold thousands more...
...Tisket, a-Tasket. In Pittsburgh, WAC Sergeant Marcella Jones wrote to a boy friend in the Aleutians, Sergeant Ray Ellis, got back an apology from another sergeant named Ray Ellis, who had opened her letter by mistake, started corresponding with him, married him when he got to Pittsburgh on leave...
Princess Elizabeth was commissioned an honorary second subaltern in the ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service-Britain's WAC), started full-time training in southern England...