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Over the Phone. One point the President seemed anxious to make definite: the blueprint shortly to be discussed by the Big Four was just a first draft. The blueprint was a plan to stop aggression, the President said; it did not envision an organization which you would have to call on whenever some country wanted to build a bridge over a creek...
...attributed their "tireless energy" and "freshness and vigor" to the fact that casualties were immediately replaced by fresh troops to maintain the corps at full strength. Later it was announced that among the reinforcements were the U.S. 85th and 88th Divisions-not only battlegreen but entirely composed of draft levies. They distinguished themselves at Terracina...
...hopeful note for airlines was the Court's agreement that the job of clearing up the muddle is one not for the Court but for Congress. At week's end, the Civil Aeronautics Board was hastily preparing to draft legislative recommendations. It hoped to get action on them in Congress in time to avert a crippling financial blow to U.S. airlines...
...Made "more or less permanent" for the 26-through-29-year-olds the orders issued a month ago. Men in this group who are necessary to and regularly engaged in essential jobs may be excused from the draft...
...food, clothing, fuel, raw materials and chemicals; manufacture of machines, weapons, ships, planes, parts (including packing boxes and paper); services such as running communications and transportation, keeping the people informed by newspapers, magazines, radio and cinema, heating and lighting homes, caring for the people's health and safety. Draft Boss Major General Lewis Hershey admitted that a 26-year-old soda jerker could be given a deferment if he was the only one in the community...