Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week this postponement became official. Reason: Army supply services had broken down sadly in some areas. Troops at Fort Dix in New Jersey, at Camp Upton in New York, even at Fort McClellan in "sunny" Alabama, battled mud, cold, rain, the discomforts of temporary housing in tents, on the whole kept their chins up if not dry. But strikes, bad weather, poor planning in some instances delayed construction of permanent bar racks, finally caused the Army to put off calling its second quota of 60,000 trainees until early next year. Originally, the plan was to have 800,000 draftees...
...have been 9,000. Six which were mysteriously missing were replaced and drawn in a later lottery. *In theory. Actually, several hundred thousand registrants had not received their serial numbers by Lottery Day. Additional lotteries will be held for them. †The net quotas up to June 30, 1941: Alabama, 13,711; Arizona, 3,098; Arkansas, 8,946; California, 38,017; Colorado, 3,837; Connecticut, 8,421; Delaware, 1,329; District of Columbia, 3,982; Florida, 10,370; Georgia, 12,792; Idaho, 1,954; Illinois, 62,223; Indiana, 21,087; Iowa, 11,738; Kansas, 8,388; Kentucky, 9,154; Louisiana...
...line from New York's long-running Life with Father which brought down the house on election night: "Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" ^ Edward Devlin, 19-year-old University of Alabama freshman, made a 66-hour marathon speech for President Roosevelt in Tuscaloosa...
...Yale 0 Princeton 13 Dartmouth 7 Army 13 Brown 6 Notre Dame 14 Navy 0 Pudue 7 Fordham 6 Wisconsin 10 Columbia 6 B. C. 27 B. U. 0 Mississippi 13 Holy Cross 6 Minnesota 20 Michigan 3 Northwester 20 Illinois 0 Nebnraska 13 Iowa 0 Tulane 13 Alabama 7 S.M.U. 14 Texas A. and M. 10 Washington 10 Stanford...
...country milel Harvard 13 Princeton 7 Brown 20 Yale 14 Cornell 20 Columbia 0 North Carolina 13 Fordham 7 Georgetown 7 Syracuse 0 Penn 20 Navy 0 Colgate 7 Holy Cross 0 Minnesota 20 Northwestern 6 Illinois 10 Wisconsin 7 Ohio State 20 Indiana 14 Purdue 13 Iowa 10 Alabama 14 Kentucky 0 Duke 14 Georgia Tech 13 Stanford 14 U. C. L. A. 7 Clemson 13 Tulano 10 Tennessee 20 L. S. U. 7 Mississippi 20 Vanderbilt 0 Boston College 32 Manhattan 7 Texas Christian 23 Baylor 0 Notre Dame 27 Army...