Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower administration disclosed yesterday that it will ask for extension of the draft law beyond its June 30, 1955 expiration date...
...more than ten million ship tons of supplies for Europe. Under Harding, he was an economizing Director of the Budget, ran his own bureau for almost half of its $225,000 appropriation ("We took our own medicine"). Under Hoover, he served as Ambassador to Britain and helped to draft the Administration's war-debt moratorium after the '29 crash...
...Ford Plan was instituted when an 18-year-old draft was expected, so it was assumed that the last two years would be financed by the G.I. Bill...
...referred in a recent speech to the "Korean war." Asked May: "Is that a manner of speaking or do you differ from Mr. Truman, who always called it a police action?" Said Ike: It could be his upbringing, but when you see American soldiers, called out under a draft, suffering casualties in the numbers they have been suffering, it must be called a war as far as he is concerned...
Personnel departments place most of the blame on the draft for the recent slack in interested college graduates. Those not being drafted want to go on to graduate schools to avoid having to serve and to complete as much education as possible...