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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...divisions (against Germany's 300), of which a good-sized number are already overseas. Since practically all the 70-odd are earmarked for overseas duty, the Army will have to create many more before next Christmas. The system: split off 1,300-man cadres from older divisions, then add 12,000 green recruits from reception centers...
...students. School directors admit they have a tough job selling nursing as a career to girls. Next year will provide a bigger problem: the U.S. Public Health Service will ask the schools to round up 65,000 girls, because 1) the Army & Navy plan to add some 35,000 more nurses to their present staff of 20,000; 2) civilian hospitals and public-health services need 30,000 nurses...
...Brotherhoods (signalmen, track workers, etc.) have already demanded a wage boost of 20? an hour, minimum pay 70? an hour. The proposed reduction in rates based on current traffic would reduce the railroads' gross income by $500 million per year; the wage increases, if granted in full, would add some $600 million to their payrolls in 1943. These two actions would wipe out all railroad profits in sight for next year...
...being Chief of Staff to visionary General Douglas MacArthur is the job of one of the hardest-working men in the U.S. Army: quiet, lean, handsome Major General Richard K. Sutherland, whom the War Department last week rewarded with an Oak Leaf Cluster "for gallantry in action" to add to his Silver Star. His staff work at Corregidor had already won him the coveted D.S.M...
...this the Forest Service replied that the little fellow subtracted nothing from the big producer, since popgun production involved part-time work by people who would not man the big mills anyway. Besides, popguns might add as much as six billion board feet to the total U.S. lumber supply...