Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exact number of gonorrheal cases inducted varies from month to month within each corps area, depending upon the hospital facilities for curing them. But such cases do not exceed 2% of the total number of inducted men. Men are now being drafted so fast, however, that this small percentage of gonorrheal cases may run into many thousands a month. The Army accepts only men whose infection is "uncomplicated"-i.e., usually not more than three or four months...
While 500 men have left the staff, but 356 names have been added. However, these figures do not show correctly the great increase in teaching burdens on the individual men. Since a great percentage of the 356 new appointments were scientists working on special research projects (the exact number cannot be disclosed) who have been made members of the faculty, there are a good deal less actual teaching men than last year...
Ships had always been custom-built. To mass-produce ships meant teaching a whole industry new tricks. Every ship had to be an exact replica of her sister. A State of Washington propeller had to fit on a shaft made in Wisconsin for a hull launched in Oregon...
...show was on when an anti-aircraft battery near the Kawasaki factory district opened up on one of the two Tokyo raiders. A second plane flew within half a mile of our camp and came within an inch of destruction. A Jap battery of eight guns found the exact range at which the B-25 was flying and let go at it. The first shots were a little ahead of the plane, and the second volley would have caught it square if the pilot had not nosed down within a few feet of the ground...
Sometime between October 1 and "after elections" U.S. civilians will receive their first big, comprehensive ration books. Chief reason for the delay is exact decision as to their form, and the technical difficulties the Government Printing office will have in producing 200 million copies (enough to provide for losses and to keep local ration boards from running short) and more than that number of application forms...