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Last week, before he had time to make these dope stories look good, Prich went off to the Army. His draft board reclassified him from 4F to lA; the Administration, sensitive to criticism of its under-38 bachelors, made no effort to defer him. Said Prich typically: "I guess they scraped the bottom of the manpower barrel and now they have to take the barrel...
...series of slowdowns (although Brewster has a union contract highly favorable to U.A.W.-C.I.O.). In a plane-hungry world, Brewster managed to lose $1,436,000 in 1942. Production of dive-bombers (Bermudas for the British, Buccaneers for the U.S. Navy) bogged down. Draft boards, asked to defer Brewster workers, cracked: "Brewster's not in war work...
...maze of changing draft rules, moves for industrial conscription, bills to defer and furlough farm workers, only one decision was clear-by the end of 1943 the U.S. would have an armed force of 11,000,000 men. Franklin Roosevelt told newsmen they could bank on that...
From the Senate came another wrench in manpower planning. Alabama's John H. Bankhead drafted two bills to defer agricultural labor from the draft, force the release on furlough for farm work of Army men who had been farmers. Franklin Roosevelt made a countermove-suggested some use of soldiers in harvesting crops, volunteer harvesting by children...
...Administration agreed to ease draft deferments: Draft boards now may defer a farmer who tends eight cows or does a comparable amount of other farm work...