Word: ccc
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...just a shade above the average U.S. sailor in height and weight. Soldier Short got through the second year of high school; Sailor Blake got his diploma. A onetime filling-station manager, Short left his job when drafted; Blake quit a berth as assistant civil engineer in a CCC camp to make the Navy his career. Since he won his title, Soldier Short has been promoted from private to corporal; Sailor Blake has the same rank he had when he became typical: boat swain's mate, second class...
Rather than yielding to penny-pinching, pound-wasting budget balancers who would throw out the CCC and other New Deal aids to the underprivileged, Congress should realize that wars are won at the supper table and in the dentist's and doctor's office, as well as on the drill fields of Devens. Using the CCC as framework, a series of semi-military camps could be set up to strengthen American youth both for battle and for peace. Anyone rejected for remedial defects should be at once subject to this physical reconditioning. No nations can hope to be strong with...
...From aids to youth (CCC...
...Army wants no men with tuberculosis, chronic heart diseases, mental diseases. But the Selective Service System indicated that there would be treatment for some who will never be physically capable for full military service. What Government agency would give it was not stated. Presumably it would be NYA or CCC or both. Thus a big slice of defense funds would be spent to build up non-combatants as well as fighting...
...educators believe NYA and CCC are developing a separate educational system rivaling the public schools (TIME, March 10). Last week the Educational Policies Commission asked that both NYA and CCC be discontinued as soon as they finish their emergency job of training defense workers, and that their conservation and building jobs be taken over by other agencies. The Commission's proposals: i) let the Government deal with unemployment among both youngsters and oldsters through a single agency; 2) let the schools be responsible for all training of youngsters...