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...Physical requirements were sharply lowered. The Army now would take men with substandard vision (20/200 if correctable with glasses to 20/40). A good set of teeth was no longer a requisite. The Army said it would take men with no teeth at all, if they looked able to keep up their weight on Army food...
...daughter of a Honesdale, Pa. barber, is proud of her ability with a cue. When she was only ten, little Ruthie could pocket 15 balls in succession,, barnstormed with Champion Ralph Greenleaf as an "added attraction" to his act. A few years ago, during an exhibition on a substandard table (4½ by 9), Miss McGinnis made a run of 128. World's record on a standard table...
Taking their ethics from their customers (jalopy dealers care chiefly for looks and price) some retreaders had used inferior rubber, put it on with substandard equipment. Yet they always had an important economic function, too. Fleet owners, taxi and trucking companies know that retreads cost only half as much as new tires (they use only 40% as much rubber) and give 75-80% as much wear. Moreover, a good tire may be renewed more than once. Fleet business had made a few retread concerns profitable long before the war. But war means a boom for all 4,500 of them...
...already rejected for military service as physically or mentally substandard, 200,000 have been certified by draft-board physicians as mendable cases. On these 200,000 the first work will be done. They will be sent willy-nilly, said the President, to private doctors and dentists for treatment of eyes, teeth, hernias, venereal diseases, etc. As soon as they are fit, they will be immediately certified for military service...
...examined for the draft had been rejected for physical defects. Last week's report, the result of a more thorough survey, upped the percentage of rejections to 50%. One man in every two had to be turned down for such causes as bad teeth (20.9%), substandard eyes (13.7%), heart and circulatory troubles (10.6%), venereal diseases (6.3%). The President took note, hinted that the Civilian Conservation Corps might undertake a program to put U.S. young men back on healthier feet...