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They had talked of many things, they said, but mostly about Chicago: slum clearance and traction reorganization, creation of a port authority and building of new airports, and also a convention to draft a new state constitution...
...London last week a Liberal Party conference, called to draft election plans, produced two assets Liberals badly needed: a policy and a personality...
...down to 400,000 and the mills were in dire need of furnace repairmen and common laborers. There was bad news ahead in the skilled-trades brackets too: 60,000 of the industry's best technical workers between the ages of 26 and 29 were up for the draft this year...
...Army's only offering to men under draft age is its Enlisted Reserve Corps. The program merely grants deforms to college men until the end of the term during which they register for the draft. At that term's close, corpsmen receive orders to report to a replacement center in their home service command. Application forms and physical examinations are to be had at 808 Commonwealth Avenue. Enlistment here carries no implication of special training...
...Bulge. He further increased the flow of infantrymen to the theater by shipping the infantry regiments of a number of divisions still in training, in advance of their artillery regiments. Taking other measures to meet a continuing crisis, the War Department has asked Selective Service to increase draft calls to 80,000 in January and February, 100,000 from then on; has reduced the training period from 17 to 15 weeks...