Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME's subscription office is in the critical Chicago war production area, where we canot go out and recruit an emergency staff to handle a last-minute rush of Christmas orders. And so, to make sure your gifts can be entered in time for us to inscribe, address and mail your Christmas gift announcement cards and start the subscriptions with the Christmas issue, we need your Christmas list just as soon as you can possibly send...
...Army, which already has thousands of meteorologists, is campaigning to recruit and train over 10,000 more...
...behind this military rug cutting was Captain Glenn Miller, late recruit from the swank hotel ballrooms and broadcasting studios. Embarking on an earnest crusade to put swing on the U.S. parade ground, Captain Miller first taught his boys to swing the military classics. Then he militarized a few items like St. Louis Blues and the Jersey Bounce. Finally he got the urge to touch up some of the late great John Philip Sousa's scores with hot licks and modern dance-hall harmonies...
Drill in the school of the recruit and the school of the squad will continue as men having little or no previous military experience form before all meals, and precede to most activities in marching columns. In addition to routine marching, the more advanced NROTC Unit will spend three hours per week in drill, while all others drill for one hour weekly...
...noble army of martyrs has a new recruit. Last week the U.S. heard the story of his heroism...