Word: regularities
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...regular Army is currently filling its recruiting quotas, but the rate of recruiting is not nearly high enough to provide 375,000 or more men for emergency training in any reasonable time. In the hearings that Reader Partington cites, the Secretary of War and Chief of Staff repeatedly testified that neither proposed pay increases nor other inducements, but only conscription would produce the number of men needed. Although the Gallup Polls did not mention the Burke-Wadsworth Bill, the poll majority favoring conscription for one year's service increased significantly after the bill was introduced in Congress...
Last Saturday night 300,000 regular, National Guard and reserve soldiers wound up the first week of the Army's greatest peacetime maneuvers and went to town to act like brutal soldiery on their night off. In northern New York, where 82,000 are in camp, saloons were not well attended. Most soldiers headed for soda fountains, fought their way through such concoctions as "General Drum Specials" (marshmallow sundaes) and "First Army Maneuvers Splits." This behavior was too much for an old Army sergeant, who groused to the New York Times: "Yes, and they all carry miniature cameras...
...week the Sixth (60 officers, 1,132 men) showed what a newfangled horse outfit could do in maneuvers in Louisiana; and the lean troopers of the Fourth, now about three-fourths equipped, were doing the same thing in Minnesota. Still to be brought up to strength are eleven more regular Army regiments. Equipped to travel 130 miles in six hours on tires, able to cover 40 miles a day, weeks on end, under their own power, the Army's modern horse outfits have many a spot in the hemisphere they can still call their own. For service...
...blue-haired, dynamic Carmel Snow, declared they were enthusiastic about what the U. S. woman will wear this fall. But the fall styles were not made in Manhattan. Their keynote was struck in Paris last May-by Schiaparelli, by Lanvin, by Chanel, Molyneux, LeLong, etc.-in their regular midseason openings, sparsely attended but well covered by cable and sketch. Since then Paris has fallen. The U. S. dress business will soon need more guidance. Otherwise it will not know what to make...
...more general. It came from those businessmen who did not object to paying more taxes to help finance the emergency, but who wanted to see the whole Federal tax structure's many contradictions, inadequacies and inequities (TIME, July 15) ironed out first. Those people wanted to see the regular income tax overhauled before an excess-profits tax is added to it. They also felt that no administration should ever turn on the heat to pass anything as important as a tax bill in a hurry...