Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Signed an order freeing members of the military Ready Reserve (including National Guardsmen) from the draft. Previously, draft-age (18½ to 26) Ready Reservists were subject to call if they had not had two years of active duty under Selective Service. The order came on the advice of Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey, who told the President that recent small monthly draft calls have left available a large pool of non-reserve men for 1-A classification...
Large-scale draft programs and the continuing cold war status mean a military obligation for America's youth for a long time to come. Recent innovations, such as the six-month active duty program, are temporary solutions with indefinite futures. Most young men still expect several years in some branch of the armed services before they can safely plan for a home and future...
...signaled a new era in Great Lakes shipping last week. It set off a $23 million project that will deepen Amherstburg Channel in the Detroit River near Lake Erie to a minimum depth of 27 ft. (from 21 ft.), enable the waterway to take deep-draft ocean-going ships of up to 10,000 tons and shallow-draft lake ships of 25,000 tons- almost double the present capacity. This is the first part of a five-year dredging program to open the upper Midwest to the globe-girdling ships that will use the new St. Lawrence Seaway. Said Army...
Each inch of draft carved from connecting channels will permit large lake ships to carry about 100 more tons of cargo. This will bring bigger, faster, more modern ships onto the world's busiest inland waterway, clip the Duluth-Cleveland voyage from seven days to five, cut lake shipping costs by 15? to 18? a ton, save shippers $10 million a year. It will also unlock the lakes for large-scale foreign trade. Some shippingmen predict that by 1965 Great Lakes-overseas traffic will go up tenfold, and the U.S. St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp. optimistically forecasts that...
...Milwaukee is investing $11.2 million. Among its projects: a $5,500,000 steel pier that will jut 1,020 ft. into Lake Michigan and a $1,300,000 pier in the outer harbor. Duluth, working with $10 million allotted by the Minnesota legislature, will build eleven slips for deep-draft ships, expects to spend $30 million in all by 1965. Cleveland is budgeting $5,000,000 for new piers and the roadways and utilities that will serve them. But shippers complain that some lakeside ports are still in the doldrums. Detroit and Buffalo have done little to prepare...