Word: fs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pending action," the President asked for quick legislation to put all of the nation's 4,500,000 4-Fs to work in the war effort...
...hunt for soldiers. It sent a summary order to draft boards to draw tighter the nets around men in the 26-37 group who are not in essential jobs; it also ordered boards to re-examine (on the basis of new, lower Army physical standards) some 847,000 4-Fs who once, but no longer, held essential jobs...
...week's end, no one knew the score-for certain. But Washington insiders held to the notion that racing was the one real target of the crackdown, and that the crack about re-examination of 4-Fs was a sop to silence race-track squawks. For one thing, every rejected draft registrant always has been subject to re-examination at any time; for another, it is no secret that Washington was sorely irked by last year's race-track gambling of a billion dollars that might have gone into war bonds, and by the increase in war-plant...
...When she walked on Carnegie Hall's stage and launched into Lucia's Mad Scene and an assortment of Mozart and Verdi fireworks, they lent attentive ears. Soprano Korjus flatted on a couple of high notes, sang a phrase or two off pitch. Her high Ds and Fs were a little strident. But she handled most of her arias with grace and ease. By the intermission, her fans had already reached a verdict: Miliza Korjus is not quite as good as her recordings, but she is one of the best coloraturas U.S. concertgoers have heard in a decade...
Pressure for some improvement in the distribution of medical care-not necessarily the Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bill-came from the military doctors present: 1) Colonel Leonard George Rowntree pointed out that 30% of all Service registrants examined turned out to be 4-Fs; 2) Major General George Lull added that U.S. physical fitness has actually deteriorated since World War I, largely as a result of poor distribution of medical care; 3) Vice Admiral Ross T. Mclntire requested that the A.M.A. draft a "sound plan for medical care." To cope with this problem, a five-man committee (included: General Lull...