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More or less under arms, when the Army last totted up (Nov. 21), were 106,833 mobilized National Guardsmen, 387,811 three-year Regulars, only 18,000 of an expected 90,000 one-year draftees and volunteers. Call of 96.000 additional Guardsmen must be delayed (anywhere from one week to two and a half months) ; so must further drafts. Only heartening item in this list was the rapid increase in Regulars (up from 242,000 since last June). Putting Regular enlistments ahead of Guard mobilization and the draft made sense, because the Regulars must bear the burden of training...
...provided by government for everybody who has not got one-to be paid for by everybody who has. "The money cost, it can be admitted with a certain smugness, will be quite staggering . . . ten billions the year to care for approximately eight millions of unemployed." Grafton proposes a three-year plan of this kind, "embracing everything from the construction of bomb-proofs in the East Coast cities to a military CCC to turn the tinkering genius of young America loose on tank and plane repair and maintenance." The Nazis did it, he says...
Haratune finally escaped his beautiful gaoler, found his long-lost wife, and began a three-year trek across Russia and Siberia back to the United States...
Fellowship System. Every six months Memorial takes on nine young physicians for a six-month trial, selects one or two for three-year fellowships. After working in eight clinical services, assisting in at least 300 different operations, taking special courses in Xray, radium, pathology, they go to the far corners of the earth to crusade against mankind's No. 2 killer...
...Gordon, 145 pound Senior wingback from Brookline, received the Harlow stamp of approval Saturday afternoon in the form of a red jersey. For Gordon, the promotion represents success in a three-year fight for Varsity recognition which has carried him along the long road of House and Jayvee football...