When he needs money to buy something like, say, the Rolls-Royce he keeps near his vegetable patch, he takes a flyer in the sale of surplus army supplies.

This sudden influx of men led to a shortage of RIC uniforms, and the new recruits were issued with khaki army uniforms ( usually only trousers ) and dark green RIC or blue British police surplus tunics, caps and belts.

Run by army personnel, the farms proved so successful that the surplus animals were given away to the peasants.

Most skinheads wear boots ; originally they wore army surplus or generic workboots, then Dr. Martens boots and shoes.

Although Farr was off to a promising start, roles were infrequent for the young actor, and he was cast as a delivery person, a post office clerk, an army surplus store clerk, an airlines reservations agent, and as an employee at a chinchilla ranch, all in all not very crediting roles.

Over the years, the shops were occupied by numerous businesses that included drug stores, law offices, a grocery store, a shoe store, a dry cleaners, 5 & dime stores, auto supply store, barber shops, cafes, a movie theater, dry goods outlet, feed & seed outlet, an army surplus store, beauty salons, clothing stores, gift shops, County Library, and U. S. Post Office.

Grampa introduces Bart to Herman, the crazed one-armed proprietor of an army surplus store.

By December he was furious at the government ’ s lack of support ( like being asked to “ fight with one arm tied up ”) and their insistence that the RIC buy army surplus vehicles ( the Army was reducing dramatically in size after World War One ) on the open market instead of simply being given them.

She primarily flew Curtiss JN-4 " Jenny " biplanes and army surplus aircraft left over from the war.

However, this was essentially a ploy by which to create a mercenary army of unemployed English soldiers using readily available cheap war surplus.

The origins of WECB date back over 60 years to when Emerson College obtained an army surplus AM transmitter.

This economic-based theory of surplus population is often labeled as Marx's theory of the reserve army of labour.

An ordinary army surplus store in Haikou, Hainan Province, People's Republic of China | China.

Known as " army surplus " stores, these typically also carry sporting goods related to hunting, fishing, and camping.

Peterman was rebuilding surplus army trucks, improving the technology with each successive vehicle.

The Grebo fashion style was dreadlocks, partially shaved heads and high ponytails, undercut or shaved long hair, leather bike jackets and / or jeans, baggy clothing, boots, lumberjack shirts, loose tatty jeans, army surplus clothing, and eccentric hats and scarfs.

In 1865, General Sherman issued " Special Field Order 15 ", which ordered the distribution of lots of to some freed black families on the Georgia coast, and also distributed some surplus army mules.

During its first few years, the College leased space on the campus of the San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo, followed by several years in surplus army barracks at Fort Cronkhite on the Pacific Ocean.

It introduced a state monopoly of the grain trade, prohibited private trading in grain and established the surplus-appropriation system, under which all surplus produce in the hands of the peasants was to be registered and acquired by the state at fixed prices, so as to accumulate stores of grain for the provisioning of the army and the workers.

He worked closely with the mathematician Richard Q. Twiss on the development of, amongst other things, radio intensity interferometry and the first optical stellar intensity interferometer, using army surplus searchlights as infinity focused photon collectors.

These were combined with cheap, hardwearing clothes such as jeans and army surplus coats.

Most of the building was devoted to the stores of army surplus but Bannerman built another castle in a smaller scale on top of the island near the main structure as a residence, often using items from his surplus collection for decorative touches.

Masterspy Rade Malobabić, Serbian Military Intelligence's top agent against Austria-Hungary, was arrested on his return from Austria-Hungary after the assassination, but was also later released and given a commission running an army supply store.

1918 saw a large area of agricultural land to the west of Slough developed as an army motor repair depot, used to store and repair huge numbers of motor vehicles coming back from the battlefields of the First World War in Flanders.

It also took advantage of the global reach of synthetic worlds by setting up a shop in Hong Kong where a small army of technically savvy but low wage workers could field orders, load up avatars, retrieve store goods and deliver them wherever necessary.

He went still further, bespattering with mud the whole French army, and even France herself, for which he predicted and hoped that new disasters were in store.

Having recently lost a major military conflict against the USSR, Zhang Xueliang, falsely claiming to be under implicit instructions from Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Government to adhere to a nonresistance policy, had already urged his men not to put up a fight and to store away any weapons in case the Japanese invaded ( a piece of information that the Japanese advisors to Zhang's army knew ahead of time, hence facilitating the planning ).

Later, when he hears that the National Guard reserves are being called up on the radio, Jody leaves the store in the middle of his shift, revealing himself to be part of the reserve army.

He lived at home with his parents and three siblings and at the time of his disappearance was a shop assistant at an army disposals store at Moonee Ponds.

A grocery store, hairdresser and beautician are in the Army housing area two kilometres away, and a medical centre, public library, cafe and department store are inside the army camp.

His closest friends are Curió, a store barker in Shoemaker's Hollow, who paints his face like a clown to attract people, Bangs, a towering Black who makes his living as a card sharp, Private Martim, a soldier who had been discharged from the army who lived off the generosity of the women he was frequently engaged to, and Breezy, who supported himself catching frogs and selling them to medical researchers for experiments.

During the war thousands of local residents took shelter in caves and set up hospitals and schools ; the army used the caves as well to store weapons and medical supplies.

During World War II, the Commonwealth Government created a general army store on the Queensland side of the border, and an ammunition dump on the New South Wales side.

After his army discharge, Brand took over the general store at Dongara.

During the First World War, land in Credenhill was occupied by an army unit to store ammunition.

A small grocery store is located near the Chilean army base on the upper level of the town.

Xerxes then personally led a second Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC, taking an enormous ( although oft-exaggerated ) army and navy to Greece.

Given its " blue-water " bias, the navy is even less inclined to become involved in counterdrug operations than the army or air force.

Despite this, aircraft today are much more extensively used as the primary tools for both army and navy, as evidenced by the prominent use of helicopters to transport and support troops, the use of aerial bombardment as the " first strike " in many engagements, and the replacement of the battleship with the aircraft carrier as the center of most modern navies.

In 1979 the armed forces were dominated by the army ; the navy and the air force only had 450 men between them.

The government was overthrown in a coup by army and navy officers on August 9, 2001.

In its temporary dispositions, the document ordered the transition from the former military government, with Augusto Pinochet as President of the Republic, and the Legislative Power of the Military Junta ( formed by the heads of the navy, air force, National Police, and a representative of the army, the head of the Army being president of the republic ), to a civil one, with a time frame of eight years, during which the Legislative Power would still be the Military Junta.

The Yiddish linguist Max Weinreich published the expression, A shprakh iz a dialekt mit an armey un flot ( " A language is a dialect with an army and navy ") in YIVO Bleter 25. 1, 1945, p. 13.

By 1999, ESAF strength stood at less than 15, 000, including uniformed and non-uniformed personnel, consisting of personnel in the army, navy, and air force.

The army has almost 1, 400 soldiers, the police 400 paramilitary men, the navy 200 service members, and the air force about 120 members.

The army is believed to have only about 1, 320 men under arms, the navy 120, and the air force 100.

Consolation came in the form of dominance in Europe and the American Revolutionary War, where extensive French aid in the form of money and arms, and the direct participation of its army and navy led to America's independence.

It left behind an empty treasury, an undisciplined army and navy, and a people debauched by safe and successful riot.

This solved the Roman problem of having to keep an overseas army provisioned while facing an enemy with a superior navy.

The French army and navy departed, so the Americans were on their own in 1782 – 83.

The African country of Gabon has a small, professional military of about 5, 000 personnel, divided into army, navy, air force, gendarmerie, and national police.

The others included the military hierarchy consisting of Lt. Gen. Fred Akuffo, the Chief of Defence Staff, and the army, navy, air force and Border Guards commanders respectively.

In 2004 the army has gone beyond its accord-mandated target, and has implemented troop reductions from an estimated 28, 000 to 15, 500 troops, including subordinate air force ( 1, 000 ) and navy ( 1, 000 ) elements.

Guinea's armed forces are divided into five branches — army, navy, air force, the paramilitary National Gendarmerie and the Republican Guard — whose chiefs report to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who is subordinate to the Minister of Defense.

Gatling guns were used by the Peruvian navy and army, especially in the Battle of Tacna ( May 1880 ) and the " Battle of San Juan " ( January 1881 ) against the Chilean army invaders.

Its highly professional army was the best in the world, but the navy could never catch up with Britain's Royal Navy.

Kennedy argues that by far the main reason was London's fear that a repeat of 1870 — when Prussia and the German states smashed France — would mean that Germany, with a powerful army and navy, would control the English Channel and northwest France.

His familiarity with Athenian tragedy is demonstrated, for example, in a number of passages echoing Aeschylus's Persae, including the epigrammatic observation that the defeat of the Persian navy at Salamis caused the defeat of the land army ( Hist.

Thousands of Scots, mainly Lowlanders, took up positions of power in politics, civil service, the army and navy, trade, economics, colonial enterprises and other areas across the nascent British Empire.

French and British military missions were invited for the army and navy respectively, and arms purchases were made.