Word: enlisting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
Wilson's desire to strengthen the Guard in order to make it "a solid base" upon which to construct the country's military organization has resulted in a mandatory six-month, active-duty training period for all Guardsmen and Reservists who enlist after April first. This six-month period will be a minimum training requirement for all branches of the service, with one minor exception in the case of men under 18 1/2 years of age in the National Guard...
...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...