Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From peasant to prime minister, Egyptians shook their fists and hurled angry words into the face of the West last week. The Egyptian State Council authorized the government to invoke general mobilization and a manpower draft "in case of war or threat of war." Newspapers blossomed with daily threats of imminent bloodshed if the British did not pull out of the Suez Canal Zone and the Sudan. Egyptians began boycotting British goods; stores tacked up signs announcing that they would no longer carry them. A poster on Cairo walls promised death to anyone who bought British goods. Government officials angrily...
...think the draft has all the fellows upset . . . They can't start figuring in high school or even in college what they want to do ... First thing you know, Uncle Sam has tagged them off base...
Wonder said he was hopeful that a way out of the will be found. He emphasized however that the uncertain effects of the draft and of changing costs of living make accurate predictions of the future impossible...
...Defense Department yesterday issued a draft call for 59,650 men In January. It was the largest call since last spring when 80,000 were inducted. Of the total, 48,000 are for the Army and 11,650 for the Marines...
According to Alexander Clark, Assistant Director of the Office of Student Placement, "More members of the Class of '52 will get jobs with big companies than the Class of '51, despite draft status...