Word: equipped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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West Coast deaf-mute supply chief is redheaded, ham-handed William B. Sain, a wireless technician and diemaker who, aware of the dreary and dim cult lives of most of his 2,000 fellow Los Angeles deaf-mutes, decided after Pearl Harbor to equip them to help the war effort, persuaded the U.S. Employment Service to let him open up class in the defense school at Inglewood High. There he has to date graduated 250 mutes in bench machining, 150 more in machine-shop practices, shop mathematics and blueprint reading. The mutes themselves developed the new industrial sign language they...
...existing situation to be so dangerous that unless corrective measures are taken immediately this country will face both military and civilian collapse. . . . The naked facts present a warning that dare not be ignored." If they are, the U.S. will have "no rubber in the fourth quarter of 1943 to equip a modern mechanized army...
Said Somervell: "Let us be realistic. Every able-bodied boy is destined at the appointed age for the armed services. It is the job of the schools and colleges to provide the opportunity for every youth to equip himself for a place in winning the war. You must do this regardless of cost, time, inconvenience, the temporary sidetracking of nonwar objectives, or even the temporary scrapping of peacetime courses. . . . Every classroom is a citadel...
...trial run of 5,000,000 noncombatant gas masks has been ordered. But to equip all war workers and stay-at-homes in the potential target areas - the 300-mile-wide strips along the three coasts, and 33 other strategic areas -would require 55,000,000 masks...
Said OCDirector James M. Landis: No plans have been made to equip the whole U.S. urban population with masks, as has been done in Britain, "until the present frontiers change." And the whole foul problem hung in delicate balance: the civilian frontier might not change for the duration. Axis as well as Ally feared the terrible retaliation. Alabama's Senator Lister Hill demanded masks for all industrial workers- and soon. The Army had established civil defense courses on five campuses (Amherst, Texas A. & M., Stanford, Florida, Maryland)-and the courses featured gas instruction. Good Old Mustard. U.S. armed forces...