Word: due
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Selective Service headquarters announced a new method of handling inductees. As it is done now, men who pass their physicals at induction centers are earmarked there for the Army or Navy_, according to their preferences, fitness and the needs of the Services. They are then forwarded in due time to Army or Navy reception centers...
...limit-but from the small nations of Europe. Cried Netherlands Foreign Minister Eelco N. van Kleffens: "The smaller states are made to feel the burden of war no less, and often more acutely, than the very great powers. It seems reasonable, therefore, that they should have their due voice in attempts to prevent...
...trouble lay in the abrupt, muddleheaded way the cutback had been ordered -without due notice. Henry Kaiser, in his seven months at Brewster, had laid off 7,000 men, and not even the union had protested. But the Administration had stepped in unprepared, and fumbled its first big cutback crisis. Now it had to resort to make-work, tiding over the dismissed employes until July 1, to give them "adequate" dismissal notice. The Government could put Brewster to making spare parts for other Corsair producers -but this would be highly inefficient: their manufacturing techniques differed. Was the Administration...
...recent quick trip to Moscow, was wined & dined by correspondents, who treated him to a $50-a-person supper of zakuska and borsch (hors d'oeuvres and vegetable soup), scalloped veal, etc. When a Red Army captain was invited over from another table, Colonel Roosevelt insisted, after a due amount of casual conversation, that the captain be told, off the record, the colonel's identity. The captain was at first incredulous, then convinced and delighted. Toasts to President Roosevelt, Stalin, the Second Front were exchanged; finally the beaming Russian whispered to his friend: "You know, I never thought...
...Due again to the nature of the Partisan warfare, the wounded soldier can seldom be transported from the battlefield to the hospital quickly enough. On a truck, a cart, horseback, stretcher or on foot, it takes him anywhere between one week and six weeks to reach his medical destination. He may die or become an invalid for life on the way. It is for this reason that less than 70% of the Partisan wounded ever get fit for the front again...