Word: enlistable
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...second time in four years, the AFL is waging an all-out campaign to enlist unskilled University employees. In 1954 the national union was soundly defeated; this spring Local 254 of the AFL Building Service Employees' International Union has assigned five full-time organizers to see that it does not happen again and to assure the addition of 1,100 new members to its ranks...
...gonna keep the boys in uniform after they've seen high-pay help-wanted ads? Ever since Korea, that has been the U.S. armed forces' multibillion-dollar-a-year question. Cooks, truck drivers, and professional privates re-enlist at a brisk rate, but such specialists as radar and missile technicians usually get out when their first hitches are up, taking along with them into better-paid civilian jobs the expensive training that the U.S. Government has given them...
WASHINGTON, May 14--An unforeseen rush of men to enlist in the Army Reserves for six months active duty, has forced the Army today to suspend any further enlistments in this program until July...
Dirt for a Dossier. When a house built by a nonunion contractor (TIME, April 29) was dynamited in 1954, Murphy headlined his lead editorial: GET THE DYNAMITERS! He followed it up in the next ten weeks with eleven more editorials, pounding at local authorities to enlist county and state investigators for the man hunt. By last October, when a jury convicted four union leaders who had ordered the dynamiting, Murphy had racked up 27 editorials on the case, while the Times reporters had unearthed enough dirt to hand the McClellan committee a bulging dossier...
...month program, primarily a reserve measure, draws off a large number of men who noramlly would enlist for three years or be drafted for two, a considerable reduction of men available for the draft could result. Such a reduction possibly could lead to a draft which called almost every physically fit male and even to a lowering of the age at which most men are being taken--currently 22 years...