Word: using
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...President and his Chief of Staff, General George Catlett Marshall, also asked Congress to provide the men to use the new Army's equipment. Only way to get enough men is conscription. Testifying for the pending Burke-Wadsworth Universal Training Bill (TIME, July 1), General Marshall and Lieut. Colonel Harry L. Twaddle drew up a conscription schedule: 300,000 to 400,000 draftees to be called Oct. 1, another 300,000 or 400,000 next April (or next January, if necessary). By October 1941, the rate can be stepped up to 600,000 at a time. The Army wanted...
...National Guard's 230,000 men, 15,000 officers. He undoubtedly had in mind the Latin-American police duty for which he has been told to prepare the Regular Army. But his immediate reason was less ominous. He wanted to give the guardsmen intensive training, then use them to absorb and train the conscripts, rather than dilute the Regular Army with raw men. Last week the President set out to get George Marshall part of what he wanted. Announced at the White House was a plan to call out four National Guard divisions, totaling about...
...trade, "the Continent of the 20th Century" is more a half-completed duplicate than a complement of the U. S. economy. Of all her major exports, agricultural and mineral, the U. S. takes only one: coffee. Yet of the coffee production of the Brazilian plantations, the U. S. can use only 57%. The rest, if coffee raisers are to thrive, must be sold in world trade, principally in Europe...
...wheat from Argentina. It needs no corn or meat grown in the fat lands of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and eastern Bolivia. Of South American metals, only tin, manganese, bauxite, platinum and vanadium could be bought by the U. S. without competition with its own economy. The U. S. could use rubber from Brazil, but Brazil's present output of rubber is negligible and it takes at least seven years for a rubber plantation to become commercially workable. Thus, several years and many things must happen before South America can hope to find a sufficient market...
...British Fleet would have to use U. S. bases from Portsmouth to Charleston, possibly on down to the Canal Zone...