Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Married men without children, and then the 21-year-olds," Colonel Furbush said, "will comprise the draft quotas for a number of months ahead...
...post-war University man is a far more somber, tense character than his bell-raising predecessor of the twenties or his inflamed, rabble-rousing brother of the New Deal thirties. The contemporary student worries. He worries about the draft, about the world situation, about the lack of values, and most of all, about the dim, dim future...
...draft does have some effect on consumption levels. Pugh found that the heaviest drinkers were those classified 1-A, 1-D men are apparently less tense than any of the others. None of them is in the heavy drinker's level...
Husbands without children, and later 21-year olds, will fill the draft quotas for the next few months, Furbush added. January's call for 460 men will triple that for December, and childless married men are expected to constitute the major part...
Both programs give those selected commissions as Second Lieutenants in the Marine Corps Reserve at the end of their training, and carry draft exemption until that time...