Word: enlisting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...citizens felt with their Congress-which seemed to have been spiritually reborn. None were more pleased than most of the adventuresome 2,500,000 youngsters now eligible for Armageddon. Many (one estimate: 400,000) already were in the armed forces. Many more this week were storming recruiting centers to enlist, inspired more by knowing this is a young man's war than fearing the draft...
...threatened close-down of ERC application came yesterday as Elliot Perkins, Director of War Service Information, began his selection from the number of men who have signed up. But Perkins emphasized that men who want to enlist may still apply, even though the official deadline is past, since the selective process may leave quotas unfilled...
...28th year, the AFS is attractive to those college men who cannot pass strict eye tests for the regular armed services of the nation. Action is promised to those who enlist, and, according to letters from the front is delivered...
Speaking at 9:30 o'clock tonight, Knapp, chairman of the Propaganda Research Division of the Massachusetts Committee on Public Safety, and head of the Boston Herald's Rumor Clinic will be interviewed on the topic, "What Harvard students can do to quell rumors". He will enlist students' aid against false propaganda...
...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...