Word: fs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reasons for the new system include the reduction of the civilian student body to about 1,000 men, mostly sub-draft Freshmen plus a large number of 4-Fs; a determination not to use the railroads at all; and the fact that there will be a one-week vacation, preceded by reading period and exams, coming right in the middle of the season...
Despite this inauspicious start, big-league baseball expects to hobble through its full 1943 schedule, leaning heavily on sped-up minor-leaguers, near-40s and 4-Fs. With scarcely less enthusiasm than in peace years, experts last week tried to predict how the teams will finish in far-off October. In Betting Commissioner James J. Carroll's odds, as in sportswriters' polls, the Yankees, Cardinals and Dodgers were top-heavy favorites...
...league baseball was last week fast becoming a sport for creaking oldtimers and freakish 4-Fs. Two hundred and one big-leaguers (more than 50% of the regular personnel) have joined the armed forces, including such key players as the Cardinals' Enos Slaughter and Johnny Beazley, the Yankees' "Red" Ruffing and Phil Rizzuto, Dodger Slugger Pete Reiser and Red Sox 1942 Player-of-the-year Ted Williams. Last week two more mainstays were headed warward: Yankee Joe DiMaggio and Dodger Manager Leo ("Lippy") Durocher...
...grounds that lawyers hold many big jobs in the war effort (notable example: War Secretary Henry Stimson); a law course is good training for military command. Now most of them are resigned to making the best of a bad bargain, namely, small enrollments composed of women*and 4-Fs...
Focke-Wulfs and Messerschmitt 109-Fs had run head-on into the terrible fire power of 50-caliber heavy machine guns, which outrange the German fighters' 20-mm. cannon. Beside the Fortresses were Liberators (four-engined B-24s), making their debut in a Western Europe mass raid. With a lower ceiling than the Fortresses, Liberators fly faster, carry four tons of bombs on their extreme range of 3,000 miles to the Fortresses' three tons over 3,500 miles. Redesigning will give both planes room for an even greater load, which they already have the power to lift...