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...Dine-A-Mite & Poker Chips. The man responsible for keeping soldiers and their families well supplied is Brigadier General Ray Joseph Laux, 52, a grey-haired, blue-eyed Quartermaster Corps planning expert. From his office at worldwide exchange headquarters in Manhattan, General Laux commands a retailing complex that could demand the services of a $200,000-a-year executive in the world of business; he does the job for $16,725 a year. Of the PX's 67,500 employees, some 44,000 are foreign nationals working abroad. This mix sometimes presents problems. In Morocco, faced with native snack...
...please its customers, the European Exchange System (2,918 branches), biggest of 14 PX districts, has built seven PX drive-in snack bars along West German Autobahnen with such names as Java Junction and Dine-A-Mite. Over the past ten years the European System has nearly doubled its stock of items, which now includes Italian fashions, men's custom-tailored suits, frozen pheasants and ten different brands of can openers. The PX system also includes barbershops, delicatessens, auto parts shops, dry cleaning and laundry service, and shoe, watch and radio repair shops...
...less than 0.2% of the amount that Astor could not take with him. How did Testator Astor do it? It seemed, under New York State and federal inheritance statutes, kind of easy: he left about $61.5 million to his wife Brooke as a taxless widow's mite. $60.5 million to the Vincent Astor Foundation and sev eral much smaller charities (also untaxable). Some $5,000,000 went to pay o"f debts, all taxes, administration expenses and lawyers. All that was left to tax was some $775,000, out of which the federal tax-types got a miserly...
After these broad strokes come successively finer, heavily italicized distinctions: the blue-gray gnatcatcher "looks like a miniature mockingbird. A very tiny, slender mite, even smaller than a chickadee, blue-gray above and whitish below . . . long, contrastingly colored tail." It migrates through the whole of Texas, winters in the southern part, breeds in the northern. The black-tailed gnatcatcher has "less white on tail." Among the robin's maculate cousins, "the reddish tail is the hermit thrush's mark." The deadpan statement, "red eye is of little aid," has nothing to do with liquor but refers...
...they fought was a savage succession of small actions, of blundering encounters around bends in the jungle paths, of ambushes, surprise dawn attacks, endless forced marches. More than by Japanese bullets, the Marauders were brought low by mite-borne typhus, malaria, amoebic dysentery, fatigue and mental breakdowns. A battalion of Marauders, after seven weeks of marching through mountains, mud and water, was surrounded at Nhpum Ga; most of the survivors were red-eyed, hollow-cheeked, scarcely functioning by the time the siege was lifted...