Word: downed
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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The draft law exempted, among others, married draft-age men with children, and nearly everyone who served in World War II (most of the reservists had families, and more war service than many of the draft eligibles who got such exemptions). In the draft, high mental standards and easy medical...
This country is more poorly prepared than it was in 1941. We have delayed all-out mobilization. The Administration has fiddled with war preparations. The Munitions Board has fallen down in its job of stockpiling-we are short of wool and even of cotton.
¶ Stooped, fierce-eyed old Cordell Hull said that he felt exactly the same about the "situation today" as he did when he dressed down Japanese peace emissaries after the attack at Pearl Harbor.
Stone stood on his rights. The Atomic Energy Commission, he knew, demands nondiscrimination of all of Los Alamos' business concessionaires. With his shop shut down, Manager Darrell McCleskey advertised for barbers throughout the state, interviewed 29 applicants, but could find no barber who would promise to cut heads regardless...
After each Red call, the FBI slipped in, jotted down the title of every volume sold to the men from Peking.