Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because of low birth rates in the Depression years, the number of young men available for the draft each year has shrunk to 1,100,000, of whom roughly 850,000 can meet physical and mental standards. To keep up the present U.S. military force of 3,500,000-made up principally of two-year enlistees, 1,000,000 new men are needed annually...
...rate of re-enlistments in the Regular Army had dropped to 6.1% by December 1952. Current re-enlistment rates in all three services are far below requirements. The Navy and the Air Force in the past have filled their vacancies with four-year volunteers-since many men of draft age preferred four years at sea, or in the air to two Army years, which might include combat infantry service in Korea. With Korean infantry service now doubtful, U.S. draftees find two-year terms of service more attractive...
Reporter Oatis became so accustomed to signing documents that even when he was handed the draft of a letter to be sent to his wife ("Keep your hopes high and trust in the justice of the Czechoslovak people, who are working for peace"), he copied it in his own handwriting just so his wife would know he was still alive. When Oatis later stood up in court, a guard at each elbow, he simply parroted almost "word for word a script they had written for me." "Do you feel guilty?" asked the judge when he had finished...
...Press had exposed Brewer's alleged misdeeds and forced his resignation from the bench (TIME, Aug. 3). In a front-page editorial, the Press defended its staffers for upholding the "right of the people to know." But President H. Walter Stewart of the Cleveland Bar Association, which helped draft the contempt citation, thought that the Press had missed the point: "The issue is not a question of the propriety of taking a photograph in court. The real issue ... is the right [of the Press'] to willfully violate a positive order of the court...
...engineering firm that is now planning and designing foreign-building projects in more countries (15) than any other U.S. firm. Two years ago Burma used $2,000,000 of Point Four aid plus $1,000,000 of its own to hire the engineers to study the Burmese economy and draft ways of enlarging...