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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began last spring in Vancouver, Wash., when it became apparent that a new Kaiser shipyard would boom the town from 18,000 to 60,000. Kaiser brought in 20 doctors to look after his employes. Vancouver's 22 regular doctors tended the rest of the townsfolk. The State branch of the Procurement & Assignment Service went easy on Vancouver, drafted none of its overworked doctors for the Army (two volunteered). But Vancouver needed still more hospital space. So, after Dr. Sidney Garfield, one of the Kaiser doctors, talked it over with the county medical society. Kaiser built a model hospital...
Selection of personnel for service with mountain forces for the United States Army, suspended July 8, has been resumed, Elliot Perkins '23, director of the War Service Information Burean announced Friday. The announcement came originally from the National Ski Patrol System, official agency for recommending men for this branch of the service...
...that time." Under the present set up, each class entering the Medical School enrolls about 125 students out of between 600 and 700 applicants These students, who are accepted at the end of their Junior year at college, are immediately taken into the Medical Administrative Corps which is a branch of the army reserve...
...junction of two country roads near Rockford, Ill. stands one of the queerest of all U.S. war plants. It is a white clapboard farmhouse with old-fashioned gambrel roof, dormer windows, neat flower boxes at the window sills. It is also the home office, sales branch and factory of the Harrington Bros. Machine Tool & Fixture Co., manufacturers of $1,000-a-month worth of machine tools for making shells and tank turrets...
Fastest-growing branch of the Army-Navy educational system is its correspondence courses - now offered by 77 U.S. colleges. Army & Navy pay half the cost, students the other half. But the biggest job is done by Army's own correspondence school, the Army Institute, with headquarters at the University of Wisconsin. Headed by Lieut. Colonel Francis T. Spaulding, Army Educational chief (borrowed from his job as dean of Harvard's School of Education), the Army Institute ships its courses not only to training camps but to troops on atolls in the Pacific and in the jungles of Africa...