Word: ordering
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Fortnight ago Tommy Holcomb signed an order (sent down from Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox) for the organization of the first full divisions in Marine Corps history, two outfits especially designed for swift thrusts into troubled areas. They are "triangular," like the Army's streamlined divisions: three regiments of heavily armed infantry, three battalions of 75-mm. pack howitzers, one of 1555, and 72 tanks...
...handed it to Mr. Roosevelt. The President, old stager that he was, glanced at the newsreel and radio men, got their nod before he intoned: "The first number is one-five-eight." Registration serial number 158, held by some 6.175 registrants throughout the U. S.. thus became Draft Order...
...Then Brigadier General Hershey's crew took over, finished the job. It took them until 5:48 a.m. next day. Out over the U. S., by radio and news ticker, the numbers flowed, establishing the "national master list," which along with personal and local circumstances would determine the order in which 17,000,000 men, aged 21 to 35, might be called for a year of Army training. Draft folklore gained some items...
...Holders of Registration No. 13 were among those who had a fairly high order number...
...allotted after he registered on Oct. 16). Serial numbers allotted up to Lottery Day ran from 1 through 7,836 (only one man in each local draft district had the same serial number). These were the numbers which were in the blue capsules for the drawing in Washington. The order in which they were drawn became the serial-number holders' national draft order number (i.e., holders of serial 158 had Order...