Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vinson's plan entailed the volunteering of 60,000 youths in the first few months--as many as the draft boards now call up in the same time. The plan would soon be expanded to 800,000 men a year with a possible four billion dollar expense for training them annually...
...Under Secretary of War and boss of the Army's $100 billion procurement program, Republican Patterson urged a sweeping draft of civilian manpower, wanted to bar millions of automobiles from the highways to save rubber and gasoline. His explosion over the sight of valuable trucks delivering soft drinks in Washington was so noisy and prolonged that it got to be known as "The Battle of Seven-Up." He was bullheaded, and his violent temper became a capital legend; but he produced. In 1945 President Truman made him Secretary of War, succeeding Henry L. Stimson...
Smaller Korean casualty lists and an increase in the number of enlistments have caused a cut in original draft quotas, Selective Service officials announced over the weekend...
Walters' survey also revealed that full-time enrollments the nation over were down by 11.4 percent because of the draft and war industries. The drop at Harvard has been noticeable, but only slight, according to the Registrar's Office here...
...people's minds. To Coach Loyld Jordan, for repeated efforts to clarify his position on why big football is good football. To the Cambridge police, for their absurd insistence on towing away student's cars which sit quietly on the streets, hurting nobody. To Congress, for passing piecemeal draft legislation and keeping college students in a state of perpetual confusion and uncertainty. And, finally, to Allen Zoll, William F. Buckley, and all their friends and associates who are dedicated to the proposition that American universities are the fountainheads of revolution...