Word: civilians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fort Riley soldiers soon learn that it does no good to whistle at Junk Town girls-they can't be had. Monson and his friends have noticed the return of the old civilian belief that soldiers are bums who haven't got the brains to be anything else. No one seems to remember that they were drafted. Nice girls, who once thought it smart and patriotic to be seen with soldiers (preferably an officer), now just say: "On your way, dogface...
Approval on Thursday by the Civilian Production Administration of a building cost estimate to the extent of $900,000 removed the final obstacle hindering commencement of operations on the latest addition to the Yard...
BOSTON, Feb. 13--(A.P.)--Harvard College today received authorization from the Civilian Production Administration to start construction of the new Lamont Library for undergraduates, at an estimated cost...
...their most important task to date. Around the table in the small, green-walled chamber sat: the U.S.'s Old Germany Hand Robert Murphy and Austria's Military Governor General Mark Clark; Britain's Sir William Strang and Sir Samuel Hood (who, as No. i civilian official in the British zone, is Murphy's opposite number); France's sleek, conciliatory Maurice Couve de Murville; Russia's deadpan, English-speaking Fedor Gusev, and Byelorussia's Kuzma Kiselev...
...Force which had signed up 75% of its expected 16,100 recruiting was stopped. The Army, which had recruited about 50% of its expected 25,000, could recruit approximately another 25%. The biggest cuts of all will probably be made in the 33,426 civilian employees...