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...proposals to keep experienced managers on farms, transport migrants to critical areas, train inexperienced farm workers, use more women, children and oldsters on farms. The Congressmen hinted that they would have to pass either a law to subsidize farmers, so they could compete with industry for workers or to draft workers for farms...
...manpower. Faced by the staggering problem of providing 13,000,000 additional persons for the war industries and the armed forces in 1942, and a further 6,000,000 in 1943, Chairman Paul V. McNutt of the War Manpower Commission has urged the adoption of a universal draft. His proposal calls for an act of Congress authorizing the government to allocate manpower wherever the need is greatest, whether it be on farms, in war plants or in the armed forces. In the past, all such proposals were termed "forced labor" and dismissed accordingly. Today, the demands of total war make...
...draft board's call came at a bad time for 42-year-old Franklin Waite of Painesville, Ohio. He had bought a lot, stacked it with lumber; he was just ready to start building-in his spare time-a home for his wife and daughter. Now the house would have to wait until after...
...best friend (Edward Arnold), a "stanch Republican" who is a War Department big shot, refuses to save her son from the draft...
...once again it appears that Coach Dick Harlow Starting from scratch, with most of his lettermen lost either because of graduation or the draft, has constructed out of nothing a team which should start ticking off victories with clock-like regularity within the next three weeks...