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...vital and immediate. At present WPB allocates only to those mills who can't get scrap--other mills buy what and where they can. With capable direction, industry-wide allocation of scrap could be substituted for the present haphazard system. Systematic requisitioning of all possible sources of steel could augment the current scrap collection. Robert Moses, ex-director of the New York City scrap drive, has developed the possibilities along this line with his recent detailed estimate that fifty thousand tons of unneeded steel construction exist in that city alone. The whole Allied superstructure rests on a foundation of steel...
Conscription Now. Both Defense Minister James Layton Ralston and Navy Minister Angus MacDonald had declared publicly that they needed no conscripts to augment the flow of volunteers. But they and others led the Cabinet faction demanding immediate conscription, as a token to the eight English-speaking provinces that the Government accepted the popular mandate for conscription...
Miss Cochran (wife, in private life, of Tycoon Floyd B. Odlum) expects to find 375 U.S. women pilots, to augment 200 U.S. males now flying in the Air Transport Auxiliary. Women who get in will be paid an average $4,000 a year. First candidates are expected to be in Britain, ready for service, within five weeks...
...unassisted tally. This burst of power, however, concluded the scoring for both sides. Although showing signs of improvement, the Freshmen were unable to exert a telling pressure; for with seven Frenchmen in the bastille at one time or another during the third period, Hodder's charges were unable to augment their winning margin...
...Army represents the honor and manly virtues of the country. Compulsory military service will augment chances in life for the youth. The urgency of making our merchant and naval marines respectable units has made it necessary for us to create their respective departments into a State Ministry. With this we shall be able to respond better to the responsibility of maintaining intact the sovereignty of our nation...