Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first U.S. war babies were ready for school. The U.S. Office of Education announced that first-grade school classes will be 9% bigger this fall, because of the large numbers of babies born during the first year of the draft. The U.S. will have swollen first-grade classes for another six years, to handle the 17,047,539 U.S. babies born during the war years...
...Down Draft. Because Britain had cut her purchases, tobacco prices at the opening of auctions in Georgia and Florida markets of this year's crop were slightly lower, for the poorer grades, than in 1946. However, all but a few grades were above their Government support levels...
...cuss. They mentioned, in various uncomplimentary ways, the U.S. Government, the Department of Agriculture and the Mexican Government. But they saved their real whizbangs for a fellow dealer, Kansas City's Ferd Owen. When they had worked off their wrath, they got Texas' Representative Wingate Lucas to draft an odd bill for Congress. It would prohibit export of mules except by Government permit...
PARIS, June 26--Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov, accompanied by three planeloads of aides, flow into Paris today for tomorrow's opening of Anglo-Russian-French discussions of European recovery, while the British were reported ready to demand a Sept. 1 deadline for the submission of a draft plan to the United States...
...Russian zone, "recruitment" sounded like the draft. In Leipzig, Saxony and the Berlin area several hundred men got a note from the Soviet military administration "At 0800 hours, June 15, you will report at with two blankets, underwear and two days' food. Your relatives can reach you through Field Post...