Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aircraft and snowshoe, agents pur sued two draft dodgers in Alaska, finally caught them at the base of Mt. McKinley...
...cleaned up almost half a million draft-evasion cases in the five years since Selective Service became a law. This week it announced some results: 12,559 men were sentenced to prison terms; fines of more than a million dollars were imposed; most of the other evaders "were made available to the armed forces." Some FBI adventures...
...about Harry Robert Bell of West Palm Beach, Fla., just home from the wars. If he had stopped to think, he would probably not have dressed up Bell as "the nation's first draftee"-since there were 6,175 duplicates of "First Draftee" Bell, all holders of local draft boards...
...reason given for the Russian haste was the harvest. A winter of famine faced the Germans. Crop forecasts were 45% below normal, and even that figure might be cut by a shortage of harvest hands, sickles, binding wire. All political organizations, said the Berlin press, were helping to draft thousands of Berliners for the farms of Brandenburg...
Citizens of Birmingham flocked in amiably for their tests. Some strong men fainted. High-school boys & girls arrived in whooping droves, made a lark of it. Everybody got registration slips and had to carry them about like draft cards. By last week the county had given 287,987 tests, examined virtually every eligible citizen. Result: 2% of the white population and 30% of the Negroes were found to have syphilis. All with infections less than four years old (older cases were considered non-catching) were ordered to report for treatment at hospitals, health centers or to a private doctor. Some...