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...manhunt went the War Manpower Commission and Railroad Retirement Board. Said WMC's Major Howard J. Lepper: "This is no sissy job. It calls for husky workers with a stiff backbone and plenty of muscle. But I'll even take women provided they have plenty of beef...
Teachers and students last week, along with beef, butter and gasoline, were on the nation's list of shortages. Educators were increasingly alarmed. The National Education Association reported that almost everywhere in the U.S. restless 16-and 17-year-olds (TIME, Aug. 2) are withdrawing from school at a mounting rate, asked parents and students to remember that "high officials . . . have urged youth ... up to 18 to build the foundations of a broad education [as their] greatest national service...
Perhaps he hasn't the push and drive of a year ago, for he lacks proper food to stand up under pressure-work punishment. What meat, especially beef, can be bought in this area is hardly fit to eat, and his wife has probably stood in line for an hour to buy it. He can't buy decent cheese, and his milk is so skimmed it is fit only for hog wash...
Stop calling the American worker "complacent," and allow him to buy a roast of beef every week. Throw some chloride of lime on the stink in Washington, and the nation will get its 100% production...
...mosquito-clotted summer mugginess. Their physical endurance is far beyond the ordinary soldier's; one Scout walked 90 miles over corrugated tundra in three days. Scouts use Trapper Nelson packs instead of the Army's steel-framed rucksack, shun Army K and C rations for dehydrated beef and other foods which weigh less. A Scout's greatest fear is that he may fall through the ice, numb his hands so that he is unable to strike a match...