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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slow Assignment. Requests on file from commanding officers for WAACs to replace men total 500,000 (375,000 from Air Forces alone). Generals of overseas theaters of operations have asked for 18,810 to date. But only a few WAACs have the thrill of copying secret orders in a general's office; only a few hundred have gone overseas. Of the rest, most have been busy at routine but necessary jobs, training other WAACs to train more WAACs. The Army welcomed them when they showed what they could do-one replacement group of 56 replaced 128 men in postoffice...
...Fourteenth day. . . . [I] climb up on the wing and see two men coming over the rise in single file. Then there appears a third, fourth and finally a fifth...
...card game which is also a test for psychic abnormalities has been worked out by Drs. Starke R. Hathaway and John Charnley McKinley of the University of Minnesota. All the player has to do is go through 550 statements printed on cards, file each card as "true" or "false" or "cannot...
Polectron, Promika. Bob McConnell's new scientists had one big advantage over all the other men in the U.S. struggling with the same problem: they had Ani line's bulky file of German experiments on synthetic mica. With the aid of this know-how, last summer they came up with Polectron - a resin made from plentiful materials including coal, tar, water and limestone. General Electric tested Polectron for a while, at length evolved from it a finished mica substitute which it named Promika...
...York, researcher Margaret Quimby correlated all this material and ran down 101 other points. For example, I saw one very interesting three-page report of hers on the Civil War battles of Shiloh and Chickamauga-which found its way into three published lines. (And of course the file held dozens of reports from the AP-a service which goes to no other magazine except ours...