Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fires of U.A.W. strategy in the postwar drive for higher pay. They burned brightest over the G.M. workers' red-haired Walter P. Reuther, leader of 175,000 members in the strike against G.M. Last weekend the heads of 17 Michigan auto locals issued a call to draft Reuther for the U.A.W. presidency to succeed bumbling, good-natured R. J. Thomas. The ambitious leader of the G.M. strikers said he "would be guided by the democratic will of . . . the union...
...great deal. It has helped feed, clothe and repatriate some 5,000,000 of 6,500,000 D.P.s in Allied Europe, has channeled some 2,000,000 tons of food, fuel, medicine, machinery, second-hand locomotives and other supplies, has begun its rehabilitation task by distributing hoes, plows and draft horses to destitute peasants of two continents. UNRRA's biggest rehabilitation project was progressing at breakneck speed in China, where U.S. Seabees and 150,000 Chinese laborers last week worked day & night to repair the war-torn Yellow River dyke. If UNRRA succeeds in restoring the dyke before June...
...Crimson team, already depleted by draft calls and Navy transfers, will face the Elis with much less power than they had at the beginning of the season. The opposing stars who will try to carry Yale to its eleventh victory in the Crimson-Blue rivalry and another Big Three championship are Larimore in the breast-stroke, Stallings at the backstroke, and Burr in the 440 freestyle...
With its demobilization outgo increasing daily, its induction income 75,000 men behind schedule, and all Selective Service receipts due to stop in May unless the draft law is extended by Congress, the Army decided last week that it could no longer afford to be choosy about its manpower revenue...
...Iran, while her demand for a sole trusteeship of Tripoli may be a bargainer for complete freedom of the Dardanelles. Meanwhile the Russian delegates can only parrot well-known Moscow claims in well-worn formulas. Unless the deadlock is soon., broken from above, the Big Four's draft treaties for Europe will not be ready in time for the 21-power Paris Peace Conference...