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...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...
...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...
Princess Elizabeth was commissioned an honorary second subaltern in the ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service-Britain's WAC), started full-time training in southern England...