Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...selective service program to draft about 300,000 young Germans, 19 through 21, for 18-month military service...
...doctors who had diagnosed the patients originally. Among 631 cases, 175 (or 28%) were found to have no heart disease at all. (All but 19 had been told that they had; the 19 had misdiagnosed themselves.) The biggest group of wrong diagnoses (38) had been made by draft doctors at induction centers, but private and school physicians, hospital clinics, insurance examiners and industrial physicians all contributed to the total of bad guesses...
...that the Korean War can inflict on the home front. In the thick of these blows is Dana Andrews, a World War II veteran and reserve officer, prospering as a contractor. He sees a young employee go off to the army and death in battle. He watches while the draft board takes his brother (Farley Granger) in the midst of a juvenile romance with the daughter (Peggy Dow) of the draft-board chairman...
...Draft boards that have already run out of 21 year olds may not call men up for a month or more, Wood added, while other boards use their 21 year olds to make up the state quota...
Commenting on the Universal Military Training proposal before Congress, Hershey said Congress should let the Defense Department start U.M.T. now with men deferred from the draft such as students and farmers. He did not elaborate on this suggestion...