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...mathematics instructor, a physician and several essential iron-ore mineworkers, all of whom were not replaceable, join the colors because of this fear. An unthinking public daily cuts national civilian productiveness by thus forcing into combat service men who are properly exempted from service by age, dependency or draft-board action...
Perkins commented yesterday that with the passage of the 18-year draft bill, V-7, V-5, V-1, and the Marine Reserve may require releases from a man's local draft board before he can be enrolled...
...associates have at last found the opportunity to play their favorite game. These seasoned lobbyists have put away, their scientific experiments and thrust themselves into the less chaste forum of the United States Senate, where they have secured an anti-booze amendment to the 18 and 19-year-old draft bill. All the local chapters have been buzzing with expectation and plans since the first soldier went to camp in October 1940. This amendment is the fruition of their hopes...
...student lawyers who ordinarily number about 800, have been reduced to less than 200 this year. Unable to obtain draft deferment because of their profession, most of them have been inducted into the Service...
...draft board obviously wants to keep their eyes on the as yet untapped pools of manpower," commented Vag as he strode out. "This place ain't what it used...