Sentence examples for war surplus store from inspiring English sources

One local, Dent "Wildman" Myers, carries a pistol in a holster as he potters about his Civil War surplus store, which sells Confederate memorabilia and right-wing writings.

Moreover, the government unloaded extra clothes at low cost to the public via "war surplus" stores, the forerunners of army-navy stores.

"The Difference Engine" is our weekly column on technology's finer detailsIN THE days when you could buy germanium diodes, variable capacitors and earphones from war-surplus stores for pennies, your correspondent like many of his schoolboy contemporaries built a solid-state version of his grandparents' crystal-set to pull in short-wave radio broadcasts from around the world.

If that's true, it has taken 50 years for camouflage-patterned clothing to reach from the post-World War II surplus stores to the rarefied Dior salon in Paris: top far right, a Dior spring gown.

At the time, fuel tanks were cheap war surplus.

Myers, who owns the surplus store, has been the law's chief proselytizer.

"What they are is really snooping," said Helen Sloup, who manages the surplus store in Wahoo.

In the early seventies he started a surplus store on Canal Street.

More slightly outdated fashions were available at the A.P.C. surplus store in Montmartre.

After his discharge, he married Patsy Howe, and dealt in war surplus, including barracks converted to housing.

6. BECKY WARREN Album: War Surplus, Oct. 14.