[Ads-l] OED March 2016 New Words notes (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Wilson Gray]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 4:23 PM, Mullins, Bill CIV (US) <
william.d.mullins18.civ at mail.mil> wrote:

> Army Navy -- (1945, adj meaning military surplus)


In StL, we used "war-surplus store," which, together with "Army-Navy war
surplus store" in a separate cite, goes back only to 1946 in print,
according to GB. At the war-surplus stores - right after V-E Day, such
stores sprang up like mushrooms - in what had not yet become the 'hood were
sold brand-new, unboxed gas masks, pilot's leather caps, and goggles, for a
quarter apiece. They probably sold other stuff, too, but those three items
were the must-haves.


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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
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