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...week's start Manpowerman Paul V. McNutt announced that his commission had drawn up another plan-this time for occupational deferment, which would go into effect "soon." Details were vague. He also gave a routine plug for the enactment of a National Service Act, providing for compulsory service for all citizens. Details of this were vague...
...books (called the Air-Age Education Series) add an aeronautical third dimension to mathematics, physics, biology, history, geography, economics, politics, even literature. History lessons now plug a new crop of aero-heroes (from Leonardo da Vinci to the Wright Brothers). Biology lessons describe what happens to a pilot when he blacks out. Social science lessons picture a post-war world of "aerial freight trains," and decentralized living. Anthologies of the rich, adventurous literature of flying enliven English lessons...
...plug gaps, 76% of U.S. football-playing colleges have waived the old rule barring freshmen from varsity teams...
...great problem in the Crimson lineup at this point is the blocking back post, and, on the basis of last spring's practice, "Swede" is the man that Harlow is counting on to plug that hole in his team...
...only two and a half years ago. Yet last week this same outfit was sprucing itself to receive the Army-Navy Production Award, highest U.S. recognition for excellence in war-goods production. Its name: Continental Motors, manufacturer of engines for tanks, airplanes, trucks, industrial equipment. Its boss and spark plug: husky, harddriving, cigar-chomping Clarence ("Jack") Reese...