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...Navy, which has consistently sabotaged manpower conservation by insisting on its right to enlist any man regardless of his draft status or importance in the civilian war effort, turned over a new leaf. It promised to stop taking workers in industries important to health, safety or public interest (2-As), men engaged in war production (2-Bs), men in essential industry who have dependents...
...student has not been told the basic fact: does the country want him to stay in classes or enlist? "If we should be drafted, we want to be drafted now." Matters stated, deploring the lack of direction. "Until they tell us, we cannot be 100 per cent behind the war effort...
...nobody cheered except the recruiting officers. The Los Angeles Daily News called the enlistments a "mass exodus" and manufacturers cited instances. Vultee said "We've never had so many people absent. Our chief engineer was tearing his hair." One company had not only lost many enlistees but had 1,500 applications for releases (from classification as a necessary worker), so that men could enlist. Another company in one day lost three turret-lathe operators out of 30. Another lost four automatic-screw machinists out of 18. A parts plant lost eight out of 16 patternmakers and another which employed...
...Brigadier General Lawrence S. Kuter they learned that the Army Air Forces relied on them to help train 2,000,000 flyers and ground men. They were exhorted to train 5,000,000 more industrial workers, to teach the U.S. people how to stop inflation, sell war bonds, enlist the nation's 30,000,000 school kids to collect scrap. They were even asked by WPB to contribute their typewriters...
...last war although he was 38 years old with a wife and three children; when he came back from France in 1918 looking older and grimmer. . . . As long as I can remember he was carrying the torch for the U.S.A. . . . After the Japs bombed Hawaii . . . he tried to enlist but was told that he was too old. . . . It is true that my father has from time to time criticized the Administration. Does that make him a traitor? . . . If that is so we have lost our democracy before we have begun to fight...