Word: enlisting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...football captain Alan E. Bartholemy, three hundred Yale men flocked to New Haven' Army, Navy, and Army Air Corps recruiting stations on Monday and Tuesday, anxious to enlist. The Elis turned up in droves, but most of the applicants were turned away because they had forgotten their birth certificates...