Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deaf, Dumb, Blind
...deaf are enjoying a cycle of prosperity now, but they still have one loud if not vociferous complaint. The U.S. Government does not consider them eligible for the armed forces, classifying them as 4-F, along with the blind, the physically helpless, and the mentally deficient. There are countless tasks in the Army & Navy which the deaf could perform, and they are eager to serve their country. Their young men are as able-bodied as any of our soldiers, with the sole exception that they cannot hear, but does one fire a cannon with one's ears? They...
...They are deaf-mutes. To North American Aviation (as to many other plants now employing them) their unique usefulness was as much a surprise as the successful use first made by Brewster Aeronautical of midgets to work in tight places...
West Coast deaf-mute supply chief is redheaded, ham-handed William B. Sain, a wireless technician and diemaker who, aware of the dreary and dim cult lives of most of his 2,000 fellow Los Angeles deaf-mutes, decided after Pearl Harbor to equip them to help the war effort, persuaded the U.S. Employment Service to let him open up class in the defense school at Inglewood High. There he has to date graduated 250 mutes in bench machining, 150 more in machine-shop practices, shop mathematics and blueprint reading. The mutes themselves developed the new industrial sign language they...
...enemy thinks he can wear us down, he errs. And I assure you the hour will come when I will strike back with compound interest. They will learn over there that German inventive genius has not been idle and they will get an answer which will knock them deaf and blind...