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...jump rapidly. The total number of additional workers now needed by the expanding aircraft industry-100,000-is expected to increase to 250,000 early next year. To solve these problems, WMC has murmured of a National Service Act. But most planemakers dislike the idea of a labor draft...
Said handsome, 51-year-old Donald Douglas, president of the Douglas Aircraft Co. (which also makes Flying Fortresses): "Transportation, feeding and housing are the crucial problems. If the Government breaks these bottlenecks, it won't need a labor draft." But he added this warning: if the manpower problem on the West Coast is not solved, aircraft makers cannot meet their huge 1944 production schedules, may even have trouble meeting them this year...
...dance three ways: 1) Sponsors, well aware of the war-narrowed pattern of U.S. life, now prefer programs with established audiences to new gambles; 2) advertising agencies have not got the manpower to build new shows; 3) rather than a shot with unproved talent left by the draft, sponsors turn to a sustainer with known talent...
Should a Democrat win, it would spike any attempt to draft Tom Dewey at next year's G.O.P. convention. Reason: he could not afford to turn the state over to a Democrat. Such a result would also give Democrats a chance to boast that the Republican tide which set in last year with Tom Dewey has begun...
Service. In West Hartford, Conn. Eddie Jordan, picked up by police for not carrying his draft card, telephoned his wife, who hurried over with the card and a just-received order to report for induction...