Word: goals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...background sweeping enough for them to understand the world which they rule. They must have the critical faculty of assembling facts and doing their own thinking. And they must be able to recognize buncombe at fifty paces. True, Harvard and other American colleges have fallen far short of this goal of preparing their graduates for intelligent participation in a democratic community. Like almost every one, they have taken what little democracy we have had without enough inspection and too much for granted. But there is a vast difference between their goal of a firmly based democracy and Dean Donham...
Secretary of War Stimson last week announced the Army's goal for 1942: 3,600,000 men. With that many men in the ranks (almost double its present strength), the Army will be only 65,000 shy of the full manpower it had at the end of World...
More important to prospective draftees is the belief of Selective Service Chief Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey that the Army can reach this goal without drafting men with bona fide dependents. There are still 1,000,000 undrafted men in the Class 1-A pool of the first registration; from the second, on Feb. 16, General Hershey. expects to net easily another...
Tanks. The President's 1942 figure is only a few thousand above the War Department's old goal of about 40,000 units. The snag: transmissions and engines. But last week farm-equipment makers were ready to take on big transmission orders. Another idea: hitch two 125-h.p. automobile engines (which can be made by the hundreds) to form one 250-h.p. tank engine...
Ships. The Maritime Commission is optimistic. Actual merchant-ship launchings last month hit a 6,000,000-ton-a-year rate, only 2,000,000 tons below the President's 1942 goal. To reach it, shipbuilders will go on a seven-day week, add "a few" shipways to the present 406 (for ships over 300 ft.), draw needed labor from a 200,000-man pool now in training. Mass orders have enabled some yards to rationalize their production methods, approximate an assembly-line technique...