Word: wacs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Glamor Girls. They profited by earlier mistakes made by the WACs. The WACs had used a publicity man's appeal to get results. Many a glamor girl got in a WAC recruiting line just for the gag. The WAVES hewed to a line that was dignified and stern. On one occasion a Brooklyn reporter heckled Miss Mac for a story on WAVE underwear. What was going to be regulation lingerie? Miss Mac set her teeth; the Navy did not care what the WAVES wore under their uniform. The reporter finally gave up. There was no story on WAVE underwear...
...WAC was leaving food on its plate. Worried, the Quartermaster Corps ordered nutrition experts to investigate. Last week the experts reported that the WACs were doing their best, advised the Army to quit trying to founder its women with regular G.I. rations (potatoes for breakfast, double helpings...
Forthwith the Army dropped 54 items from the WAC menu, thought it could save $2,700,000 on its food bill...
...unforeseen obstacle to" WAC recruiting was the kēpi-like, cheesebox dress uniform cap. After much private heartburning, the WACs finally junked it in favor of a jauntier, less severe overseas...
Lieut. General James Harold ("Jimmy") Doolittle, brilliant, scrappy commander of the U.S. Eighth Air Force, stood happily by while Corporal Ruby Newell, of Long Beach, Calif., accepted a bunch of roses and the verdict of U.S. doughboys stationed in England that she is "the most beautiful WAC in the European theater...