Word: fs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stand Corrected." General Vaughan turned to the subject of women: "I made a very rash statement before the commanding officer of the WACs. I said I didn't think of any job being done by the WACs that cannot be performed by 4-Fs at less cost. I also made that statement to General Eisenhower, but he disagreed with me, so I stand corrected...
...been training doctors faster during the war than it ever did in peace. In 1943, all qualified students enrolled in medical and dental schools were signed up as Army or Navy trainees. Taking an accelerated three-year course, these military students (and a sprinkling of 4-Fs, women and foreigners) have been pouring through the schools so fast that between July 1942 and July 1948 the U.S. will have trained 40,000 new doctors-9,000 more than the preceding six years...
...stories about draft discrimination kept piling up. Several athletes who looked like grade A 4-Fs had been hurriedly reclassified and inducted-after draft officials spotted the P.A. (for Professional Athlete) on their papers. Examining doctors had rejected Hugh Poland of the Braves until an Army officer cracked: "If you can play ball, you can serve in the Army." The Phillies' Ron Northey had been turned down and then called up three days later. The Cardinals' Danny Litwhiler had been drafted despite a medical notation that "this registrant . . . does not meet the minimum requirements for military training...
...there so many healthy 4-Fs left in America when they are able to serve...
...most farmers it meant that work would be harder, crops inevitably shorter. Some wrote their Congressmen. One of them, North Dakota's hawk-nosed Senator William Langer, collected his farmers' mail, laid some of it before Congress as it considered the May-Bailey bill to draft 4-Fs. Samples, from Dakota farming towns...