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Since V-J day, demobilization machinery had restored to civilian life almost half again as many men as anyone had figured possible. At that headlong rate of discharge, said General Ike, we would have soon "run out of Army."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - DEMOBILIZATION: Operation Eisenhower | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

Mantrap. In Honolulu, Pfc. J. B. Cumbie, trying to reenlist, was rejected for ear trouble, asked for a discharge, learned that he lacked the necessary points.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 21, 1946 | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

Succumbing to last week's pandemic strike fever, the women elevator operators of Boston's 13-story Statler Building held an excited conference over cigarets in the powder room. They decided to strike posthaste for discharge of their unpopular supervisor and a raise in pay.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Penny Wise | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

But at the rate the Army has been tearing down its establishment, it would have nothing like that number next July i. After January, declared the slightly confused Army, the U.S.-bound legions will be reduced to less than 300,000 a month-although there is shipping available for twice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - DEMOBUJZATION: Home by Spring? | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

The difference lies in the fact that London nowadays burns far less fog-making soft coal. Although the yearly discharge of soot and ashes is down to 300 tons per sq. mi., London's diligent Smoke Abatement Society is by no means satisfied. For one thing, deaths from respiratory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Big Fog | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

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