Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Administration officials say there is enough manpower to go around, but the shortages are local. Those shortages, which are critical, are now beyond control (see CANADA AT WAR). Various expedients to channel the labor supply-by cutting off raw material to nonessential industries, by ordering draft boards to get tough, by giving pep talks, showing movies, using bluff-have never been adequate and are not adequate now. The U.S. is still larded with the fat of peacetime...
That drastic action can only take the form of federal aid. But college administrators insist that the federal help should have no strings of federal control. The aid should be in the form of 1) "selected" draft deferments; 2) priority on surplus commodities they can use for buildings and equipment; 3) direct grants based chiefly on losses of peacetime enrollment; 4) longterm, low-interest loans; 5) contracts for adult extension courses and research; 6) a federal scholarship fund...
...army appeal to draft exempt citizens between 18 and 35, Lieutenant Stanley W. Massack said men are needed to do vital work in the Signal Corps, stressing that "The positions are so closely connected with the fighting fronts that only persons of unquestioned loyalty, integrity, and highest moral standards need apply...
...Yard, Navy men dominate the New Haven campus with 1,100 service men now stationed there for Navy V-12 or Marine college training. In addition, Yale conducts several special schools for the Army. Civilian enrollment includes approximately 500 freshmen and 350 upperclassmen, most of whom are either below draft age or have been classified...
These depressing data were reported last week by a Senate subcommittee on Wartime Health and Education after a two-year study of the state of the nation's health. The committee found that the draft-age young men were a fair sample of U.S. health generally. About one U.S. citizen in six has a chronic disease or physical impairment...