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...workers only, who can prove by official applications, checks, and rechecks, and possibly other essential civilians whose transportation problems are acute, will be allowed to buy the bikes at about 130 percent of pre-war prices...
...those 20 percent who do "wash out" still have a crack at bombadier or navigator training, both important combat duties, or at the ground jobs of meteorology, photography, communications, armament, or engineering, for which technical knowledge is more necessary than physical fitness...
Ninety-nine percent of your subscribers and readers are red-blooded Americans...
...DeWitt would move them faster, before they starve. In San Francisco's Little Tokyo, store fronts were plastered with huge signs, proclaiming: "Evacuation Sale." In one window, under the sign, hung a red-white-&-blue poster: "God Bless America, the Land We Love." Under that, another sign: "Twenty Percent...
Each department, on the other hand, has felt a drop in the number of undergraduates taking courses in the department and an even more violent one in the number of graduate students. The Anthropology Department has seen a 25 percent falling off already and is finding it increasingly difficult to obtain satisfactory applicants for fellowships...