Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radio comedians were reminded last week that war is only sometimes a laughing matter. They got a letter from the War Department's Radio Branch, which had been getting complaints from soldiers and soldiers' families & friends. The War Department communiqu...
...bills. On the education front, college officials raised their voices in a pleading chorus crying for a blueprint from the War Manpower Commission, and Washington answered with equal vehemence that the job should be done by the colleges. Enticing reserve plans were set up by every branch of the armed services, colliding with the necessity for drafting married men to build a 10,000,000 man army. Statement like that of the War Manpower Commission which proclaimed "every able bodied male is destined for the armed services, bucked the needs of industry and the desperate lack of trained doctors, physicists...
...already classified will report their standing, while those not yet passed upon by their draft boards state their probable fate. If students are in a reserve program, Mil Sci, or Naval sci, they will give this, and pre-meds and men preparing for a specialized branch of the service will record this fact...
...there took four to six months to build, he believed he could make them in three and one half days. The British were skeptical. But Moore is now delivering the engines at a rate of one per day. Equally skeptical were old-line turbine builders when Moore decided to branch into that field. But so successful has Moore been that in December two additional turbines of the 48 on order will be delivered...
...questionnaires request, among other things, permanent address, peace-time occupation, branch of military service, civilian war service or war industry, details of foreign duty as far as censorship regulations permit, promotions and citations, and the name and address of the nearest relatives. Relatives are requested to fill out the form if the addressee is on foreign duty...