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fullscrew: a full Corporal in the Army. grunt: an infantryman. mod plod: a nickname for an officer in the Ministry of Defence Police. club swinger: the PE trainer. fang farrier: a dentist. pusser’s issue: a label for any equipment issued by the Service, a corruption of the word ‘purser’. Anything done unimaginatively or ‘by the book’ is done in a p
... See moreSusie Dent • Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain
We conducted the first experiments near the Sharon Hotel in Herzliya, shooting into the Mediterranean. This was our base and practically the first artillery base of the Israeli Defense Forces. This mortar, or our “heavy artillery,” as we called it, contributed much to our war efforts. It was used by Yitzhak Sadeh and his troops in their attempts to
... See moreUriel Bachrach • The Power of Knowledge - HEMED
Bid rigging produced extraordinary margins: in the late 1890s the companies collected $345–420 per ton of armor (a compromise after the Russia–Bethlehem embarrassment) against production costs of perhaps $150. With that kind of money at stake, what patriot could pass up the chance to defraud his fellow citizens?
Charles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
MLAS: Mining Lands Administration System
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