Word: enlistable
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...that Americans had something to work for and give for, they worked and gave as they had in pioneer days when the wilderness tried to swallow them up, in Civil War days when the Union would have fallen apart without them. Thousands rushed to enlist (see p. 8). Other thousands helped in other ways: > At the Treasury in Washington so many gifts of money arrived that clerks worked overtime to acknowledge them, had no time left to tot them up. One man sent $100 he had won at a movie bank night. A hairdresser sent an entire...
...Mayor LaGuardia announced that he will enlist 90,000 licensed pilots, 90,000 student pilots, 100,000 ground workers to serve in a Civil Air Patrol for the war's duration. Under the command of Major General John F. Curry of the U.S. Army Air Corps, CAP will operate from 2,000 airports in the U.S. which are not used for military or commercial flights...
...Studios were besieged with requests from top executives, $50-a-week writers, et al, for contract releases permitting them to enlist or enroll as civilian volunteers...
Pointing out that the College has no intensions of preventing a man from joining up. Dean Kennedy urged his listeners to be certain of their decision before rushing off to enlist...
...Feller of the Cleveland Indians said he was going to enlist instead of waiting for his draft call, expected in February...