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Dates: during 1940-1949
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America is preparing. With conscription fully underway our citizens will sleep peacefully tonight feeling their "threatened democracy" is now safe. For only a show of real strength will keep the forces of European totalitarianism at arm's length. But what is to prevent such incipient forces at home from using conscription to promote their own fascism? The Selective Service Act leaves several doors open to such action...
...microscopes using electron beams, useful magnifications have jumped to 100,000 diameters and more. Light is a train of waves; to pick some tiny body out of the unseen, the waves must find it big enough to get hold of. If the body is much smaller than the wave length, it will slip through like a mosquito through a fishing net. Electron beams are also wave trains, but their wave lengths are thousands of times shorter than those of light. So, in effect, they give scientists a collecting net of far finer mesh...
Under the present arrangement, all the major studios obtain their extras through Central Casting Corporation, a nonprofit, cooperative employment agency run by the Association of Motion Picture Producers. There almost 10,000 extras are registered, known by their age, sex, length of beard, type of wardrobe. When David Selznick needs a few thousand Confederate soldiers, his casting department sends an order to Central by teletype. It is given to one of the six casters who sit in a large noisy room listening to the names of the extras broadcast over a loudspeaker as they call in for work...
...long range program, nor defined "defense" any more precisely than in their original statement of aims. Their campaign has been devoted to combatting isolationism, building morale, and plumping for strong defense measures and increased aid to England. But increasingly their position has implied that America should go to the length of vigorous military intervention if that seems the only way to save England...
...will be the future status of the civil servant? Is it necessary or advisable to deprive a man of his inalienable rights on the doubtful grounds that he works for the government? Mr. Wallace Sayre of the New York Civil Service Commission, who treats of the question at some length, heartily condemns this incipient tendency to "gag" the government employee...