Word: adds
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...finally caused the Army to put off calling its second quota of 60,000 trainees until early next year. Originally, the plan was to have 800,000 draftees and one-year volunteers in uniform by next June. By last week, it looked as if the Army would have to add perhaps three months to its lagging draft schedule...
...life, is to have his turn as a best seller-for last week the lively, human story of Parson Spence went into its third printing. Reader's Digest picked it for its December book abridgement, and in Hollywood Warner Bros, rushed work on a movie script to add to its string of screen biographies...
...underwriters. This has been accomplished "despite what we have to work with"; namely, an almost brand new $275,000 plant including even the latest in patented tulip-trap-door poles for the men to slide down. In fact, the only bit of equipment which the chief would like to add at the moment is a "shillalah" to crack automatically the skull of anyone sending in a false alarm from the box in front of the Lampoon. Last year this box established a new record of five false alarms in one night. Such needless trips and careless smoking are the chief...
...well packed one night last week. It had been sold out for four days-good news in a season that had not begun too well for concert managers. Cause of the turnout was a brown, dignified, warm-smiling woman, in a billowy, pumpkin-colored gown which failed to add much to her melony 4 ft. 10 in. Negro Soprano Dorothy Maynor, just past her 30th birthday, had begun her second concert season...
Last week big Bill Knudsen spoke. To 69 automotive bigwigs gathered in Detroit he outlined the part they were to play. Franklin Roosevelt had just decided to add 12,000 new bombers to the air expansion program-for parts of which automen would receive $500,000,000 in orders by next spring. With him Commissioner Knudsen had brought blueprints to help them retool their plants, prepare to mass-produce wing, fuselage and tail assemblages. If they could handle the job, said Mr. Knudsen, automakers would get one quarter of the entire rearmament fund alloted to aircraft...