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...usual" was still an uncoined phrase, but people spoke of English and philosophy and even economics and government as unpatriotic luxuries. When this war came, increasing mechanization meant that Harvard could not again become a training camp, and students turned to specialized technical courses, or waited for the draft to catch up with them. Preparing the University for war seemed to mean turning it into a trade school. For immediate usefulness the broad highway to learning looked suspiciously like a blind alley...
...theses positions. The salaries for the position of rating examiner is $1,800 per annum and college graduates, either men or women, are desired. There may be a small number of openings as Representatives at $2,300. No one will be appointed who is in Class 1A in the draft or is likely to be called to military service. Appointees must be willing to accept assignment anywhere in New England...
Industry is taking on women workers slowly now. The rate must increase if the U.S. is to have a fighting force of 10,000,000 men. Employers find it impossible to save a man from his draft board, no matter what his industrial skill is. "Train another," has been the answer. Lately the answer often is: "Train a woman...
...coastal fires were the work of Axis agents, their purpose was twofold: to cloak submarines from the prying eyes of U.S. aircraft on patrol; to drag men from vital war factories to fight the fires. Fire-fighting manpower was at a low ebb. The draft had cut deeply into the ranks of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Soldiers and sailors banded together with hastily recruited citizens to dig trenches, fell trees...
...There were more mothers than ever before in U.S. history -and fewer of them looked like Whistler's. For more than a century the U.S. birthrate has been dropping. The draft had much to do with a fact now noted by statisticians: the U.S. birthrate last year was 18.8 per 1,000, highest since the crash of 1929. In 1941 there were 2,500,000 new U.S. babies, and 1,500,000 new brides. Some of the brides are already mothers and lots more U.S. babies are on the way. In February 1941 the U.S. birthrate hit 20.2, passing...