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...Reserves. The two faces resulted in some confusion: first the Administration said it would not call for reserves; next day it authorized the draft. Harry Truman announced that he had authorized the armed services to bring up their strength to a new (but undisclosed) ceiling. Under the Administration's .economy program, the combined forces now stood at 1,370,000. To reach their authorized strength of 2,006,000, the services would need to fill these gaps...
Both the Navy and the Air Force hoped to satisfy their specific needs-mostly in technicians-without the draft. The Army also wanted specialists, but had no hope of getting all the manpower it needed from volunteers alone. This week the first draft call went out-for 20,000 draftees for Army service. All over the nation draft boards riffled through their files, and picked names from the 1,440,000 1-A's among the nation's 9,790,000 registered 18-to 26-year-olds. They would start with the oldest first...
Zero Votes. The House, which only six months ago had voted down U.S. aid to Korea (and then sheepishly reversed itself) got busy too. It cut short debate on extending the peacetime draft, a red-hot issue suddenly cooled by the winds of necessity, and approved it 315 to 4. The Senate sent it along next day, 76 to 0. The President was thus assured of another year's power to draft 19-to 26-year-olds, and new power to call up the National Guard and the reserves in an emergency...
...keys to the cupboard is handsome, hard-driving W. Stuart Symington, 49, who resigned as Secretary of the Air Force last spring to take over the chairmanship of the National Security Resources Board (composed of seven Cabinet members and himself). In Stu Symington's keeping is the latest draft of an Emergency War Powers bill which, if approved by NSRB and enacted by Congress, could stop overnight the manufacture of life-size Hopalong Cassidy dolls and set auto workers to making tanks. It would give the President all the vast powers he had in World...
...staff makes no secret of the fact that its blueprints for economic mobilization are by no means complete; some of the toughest decisions have yet to be argued out, e.g., what industries will be the first to be deprived of steel? Will there be a real labor draft...