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"This does not make me an inspector,
I am, or should say, will be, working
on termination of navel contracts.
Broadly speaking this has to do with
settling with contractors for the un
completed portion of terminated con
tracts. And it promises to be just as
simple as it sounds.
" I had three weeks at the Army In
dustrial College in Washington, D.C.,
at the pentagon, and one week of lec
tures from the Navy. The school was
valuable experience— sort o f an easy
transition from my seagoing days back
to civilian activities.
" I was pretty confused at first as
it was all law and accounting, and
those are two subjects I’ve given very
little thought to in the last 2^4 years.
"T h at Washington, D . C. duty
sounded like good duty for a sailor be
fore I got there, as I heard there were
14 women for every man. But as usual
with rumors, it just wasn’t so. The
proportion is only 8 to 1!
"T his Stateside duty isn’t bad,
though. But I certainly wish I’d told
them I was from Detroit. Then maybe
they’d have sent me to the West coast.”
From Weisbaden, Germany, Sid
H offm an writes: " I t ’s been a long,
long time since you wrote, but I can
account for all the time— and this is it:
30 N ov. to 15 March— 'In transit’
no time for letters.
"16 March to 29 May— Procrastina
tion by SDH.
"B u t to answer your letter:
"1 . CPA comes through regularly.
"2. Don’t let stacks of paper from
Barney fool you into believing he works
overtime.
"A nd now to give you some news of
myself: Censorship is relaxed so I can
say where I’ve been since leaving the
States, and it’ll help fill us the space, so
here goes:
"W e came across in seven days, spent
a while at Salisbury in Wilts, then three
months in Exeter, then another short
period in Salirbury, and then we went
to London. We were there from Feb.
3 to Aug. 6. I went through the old-
fashioned raids and the buzz-bomb
raids. I counted 36 of the former and
over 300 of the latter. Our office was
bombed out once so we had to move.
We lost quite a few records and some
equipment. Since hitting the continent
we’ve been in Periors, Laval, Versailles,
and Verden. We had seven months of
Verden and that was seven months too
many. We came to Weisbaden the 27th
of April so have been here a month. It
is a rich resort town about 60 per cent
bombed out, but still very beautiful.
"O u r office is in a bank, and I have
the President’s place. The bank is about
the size of the U.S. National in Salem,
but it is square in shape. The Krauts
were moved out to make room for us.
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