Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been full of tangles with the law. Son of a laborer who had the same name, Ray dropped out of school in the 10th grade, spent two years in the Army, where he served a term for drunkenness and "breaking arrest," was discharged in 1948, and turned to civilian crime. He was convicted of burglary in Los Angeles in 1949, of robbery in Chicago in 1952, of forgery in Missouri in 1955, and in 1960 had drawn the 20-year term for armed robbery and car theft that he was serving when he made his escape...
...addition, the government mobilization would extend up to men aged 45, v. the present 33. Those 33 or younger would go into active military units; those 34 to 39 would be assigned to Regional and Popular (local) Forces or join those 40 to 45 in civilian defense units. Duong Van Thuy, chairman of the House Defense Committee, would also like to call up all single girls aged 18 to 25 to serve as hospital aides or armed forces secretaries, where they could, as Thuy put it, use their "soft hands and tender hearts to comfort our boys...
...orders. Nor did the prospect of this punishment induce Mary Elizabeth to resume soldierly ways or to put on her Marine uniform again. When her case is finally reviewed, the lady Leatherneck, who enlisted straight from school in Grand Junction, Colo., hopes to be reduced to the rank of civilian...
...start of the second quarter, most economic indicators are angled sharply upward. Last week the Department of Labor reported that unemployment declined slightly in March to 3.6% of the civilian labor force, close to the 14-year low of 3.5% that was reached in mid-January. Total employment hit a new high of 75.8 million, and joblessness among nonwhite workers fell from 7.2% in February to 6.9%, or 615,000. Business investment, led by an estimated 3½% gain in plant and equipment spending, was stronger in the first quarter than Government economists had expected. Housing starts, at their...
Military exhibits were quite in order at the NRA convention, for the organization has had cordial relations with the armed forces ever since it was founded in 1871 by a group of National Guard officers to foster civilian marksmanship as an aid to military preparedness. Usually at least one retired or active duty Army officer sits on the NRA's board of directors...