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...storied Marine Corps, topping 200,000 and approximately three times its greatest former strength (in World War I), was feeling the manpower pinch. It had also noted with approval the quietly efficient job done by women in military service in Britain. This week it opened its ranks to Marines in skirts...
...question rose to plague the U.S. last week. The speed with which the draft will soon strip the nation of its young men was now apparent (see above). The manpower pinch was already sorely felt by factory and farms; food rationing was destined to grow stricter by the month...
...grey Norfolk jacket, he sat down at the head of a long dining table in Johns Hopkins' Alumni Memorial Hall. As warden of the hall he was surrounded by men ranging from freshmen to graduate students. Once when an after-dinner speaker failed to show up, Oliver pinch-hit for him, related the details of a famous murder. That set a precedent and he had to give at least one "murder talk" each semester...
...hint of what this means, citizens could remember the Government's recent announcement that 49,000 planes were produced last year. Left for the man in the street will be what officials term "a lean but healthy civilian economy." To many who have not yet felt the full pinch of war, the degree of leanness will be surprising before year...
...This means that magazines which loaded the stands with copies (taking a heavy percentage of unsold returns to avoid missing any sales) may now take most of the cut out of their returns. But those magazines which rationed newsdealers closely and took few returns will really feel the pinch...