Word: filling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Drew up plans to tighten the lax draft laws. Enlistments have been lagging so far behind quotas that even the Marines will have to fill their ranks with draftees. The President's speech brought a rush of volunteers to Army, Navy and Air Force recruiting centers, but it was still not enough...
...troops. Haydn pocketed his ?300, forgot the opera for the time being. Landon found one score in Berlin's State Library, another in the Esterhazy archives of Budapest's State Library, but both were incomplete. At one point, the frustrated musicologists had begun composing a recitative to fill in a gap when the missing part suddently turned up in a misnumbered manuscript...
...Ordered suppliers of cadmium (used for electroplating other metals) to fill no more than 50% of their defense orders on hand, allot the rest to essential civilian use until a long-range cadmium program is drawn up. Reason: cadmium is in such short supply that defense orders alone would easily gobble up more of the metal than is now available...
...foothold in the aircraft business. Olive was quickly promoted to receptionist, bill collector and paymaster. In 1930 she married the boss. She helped him form Beech Aircraft and helped nurse their plane-manufacturing company along. Thus, when Walter Beech died last month, there was no trouble finding someone to fill his job. Last week O. A. Beech was elected president and chief executive officer of Beech Aircraft Corp...
...points out that U.M.S. would mean that many men--doctors, trained technicians, for examples--would have to serve twice, once before and once after education. Otherwise, the Army would have no one to fill important advanced posts except the few who would re-enlist voluntarily...