Word: fs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bailey bill, which empowers local draft boards to shunt men (including 4-Fs) aged 18-45 into essential industries and keep them there, was tht only legislation in sight. It was a little bedraggled by the time, last week, the House Military Affairs Committee hung it with its last amendment and finally reported it out. Now on the floor of the House, even this mild, makeshift measure faced an uncertain fate...
...stopgap, Army & Navy top men would agree to the May-Bailey bill, which would penalize workers in nonessential jobs and force 4-Fs into war work. But they say that the only final solution in a total war is a national service...
Nothing was said about some 3,650,000 4-Fs who never had essential jobs and are performing none now. Selective Service would presumably get after them when it got a law to work with...
...most people, the U.S. looked like a pretty healthy nation-until it got caught in the draft. Of over 14,000,000 men examined, only 2,000,000 were up to standard. Of the rest, 6,500,000 were accepted despite defects, 2,250,000 were remediable 4-Fs (of these 1,500,000 were made fit for duty), 3,500,000 were hopelessly unfit. In addition, 1,000,000 have been discharged for defects discovered or developed after induction...
...committee, chairmaned by Florida's New-Dealing Pepper, proposed to do something to better the nation's health. As an immediate measure to help meet present critical manpower shortages, it urged that the Army Rehabilitation Program proceed at once to make the 750,000 remaining remediable 4-Fs fit for military duty. To improve the health of the nation as a whole, the committee offered a mild, sensible-sounding program to fill such lacks as these...