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...over 500,000 tons of Axis shipping tied up in U.S. ports. In hot midsummer, their volleys and thunders reached a climax. By a hair, by the margin of one vote, they just failed to wreck the country's fumbling efforts to raise an army. Extension of the draft finally passed the House...
Although no full checkup of companies has been made, Steele said he thought there were only a few concerns that would change their employment policies with respect to college graduates and draft eligibles...
...they always have to take the nicest boys in their asinine old draft? It's true they do look simply so chic in uniform. So much so that the women, impressed by what a Sam Browne belt will do for a tubby physique, are flocking into civilian defense organizations so they can wear uniforms themselves. But oh, how wrong they are! The fair sex just don't seem to have been built for khaki. Those severe, blue-grey creations which would harass Mainbocher or Schiaparclli to an early grave have bulges in the wrong places and straight lines just where...
Result: the churches and Britain's Board of Education are now collaborating to draft an act making worship and religious instruction compulsory and providing a Government inspector of religious education (i.e., bringing religious teaching up to scratch...
...hinting that the U.S., despite this crop boom, might face a food shortage, the President was thinking of a new X in the war equation: the U.S. manpower reserve. Farmers had already had hired-man trouble as a result of the industrial boom and the draft. If the U.S. now raises and equips a really big army, it will draw still more on the unmobilized muscle of the farms. In that case, can the U.S. farmer feed that army, the U.S. and the Allies too? At year's end, the President had under advisement a proposal to create...