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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...
...also the combination of more customers and more dollars than storekeepers have seen since spring. Result is that U.S. merchants have ditched their gloomy summertime predictions, now figure on a boom until Christmas, when sales will be the biggest ever. If so, total 1942 sales should easily exceed last year's titanic $5,000,000,000 or more...
...losses; the Navy's cryptic account indicated only that they were heavy, that the Japanese had not dared another test of surface strength. The Navy calmly left others to infer that the Jap losses may well cripple them throughout the Pacific war area, that the U.S. losses may exceed those previously listed (one cruiser sunk, two cruisers, two destroyers and one transport damaged...
Lowell House was out in front, $40 ahead of its nearest rival, Leverett. Adams, along with these two, was the only other House to exceed $65 in total sales. Pledges in most Houses ran very close to the sales figures, indicating that those who had pledged were fulfilling their promises...
...spare moments, General Yount liked to refer to his command as "astronomical." The objective was stepped up from 12,000 to 30,000 pilots a year before Pearl Harbor, jumped to 50,000 afterward. Now it is far higher, eventually will probably exceed 100,000 pilots a year-plus bombardiers, navigators and gunners...