Word: goals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This news is worse than it sounds. Under the Army's timetable of planning ahead, the production goal must be set higher month after month, until the still-growing Army is wholly equipped to the last shoelace and gas mask, and further, until the Army has a solid backlog of reserve equipment for the changing needs of the war. When production falls below goals two months in a row, as seems to have happened, the Army loses not only equipment but time-and if enough time is lost, an all-out assault on Festung Europa may be delayed...
...been switched from his old tackle spot to fill a weakness at guard. The two former teammates battled it out all day as if each thought the other was a Boston College man. It looked like a 30 to 30 tie until the last three seconds, when a field goal sewed up victory for the Redskins...
...showing was the War Department pleased. Of the plus-7,000 planes delivered in May, around 5,000 were tactical types. The total number produced was up 40% from January, the weight (more bombers) up 63%. Barring failures, the U.S. was going to meet and pass its goal of 60,000 for this calendar year...
...needs about 84,000 student nurses. The U.S. goal for new enrollment by July 1 is only 65,000, because nursing schools can handle no more. Even this goal is not being met because : 1 ) defense jobs pay well, and a nursing education is expensive; 2) courses are long; 3) the life of a student nurse lacks appeal because of long hours and restrictions...
...first 2,000,000 draftees examined in 44 States, 4.6% were rejected as syphilitic, 1.5% had gonorrhea. So reported U.S. Surgeon General Thomas Parran last week. By the time the Army reaches its 10,000,000-man goal (and if the present rate of infection is not lowered), 610,000 potential soldiers will have been incapacitated...