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...doctor shortage was reviewed by the War Manpower Commission last week. Rock-bottom figure for effective U.S. physicians is 120,000 (after deducting retired doctors, those with full-time business or teaching jobs, and one-third of the physicians over 65). About 42,000 doctors, mostly men under 45, are now in uniform. This leaves some 80,000 at home. This year 11,455 more will go into service, leaving fewer than 70,000 for the 120,000,000 stay-at-homes (actually a few more, counting men coming out of retirement and those able to practice part-time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Stretching the Doctors | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

...call for volunteers for Mountain Troop duty, the Army has requested that men who are good physical specimens, preferably with some experience in skilng, rock climbing, or wilderness activity, sign up at the War Service Information Bureau, Little 12, by Wednesday January 13, Bureau Director Eliot Perkins '23, reported last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARMY STILL SEEKS MOUNTAIN TROOPS | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

...ALVORD Rock Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 7, 1942 | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

...face of one of Washington's more general disorders, the Deans' Office went to work. Out of chaos they brought a plan, fallible to be sure, but by comparison almost rock-like. It became their outspoken policy to advise men to stay at Harvard and complete as much of the four years as they were able, and their official rulings have been uniformly consistent with this policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Holding the Fort | 12/4/1942 | See Source »

...many a U.S. auditorium with a battery of real cannon manned by a squad of U.S. artillerymen. In Madison Square Garden, six years ago, Conductor Erno Rapee added a squad of infantry and a ten-gauge cannon to his WPA orchestra of 210 men, made enough noise to rock midtown Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Shotgun Symphony | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

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