Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...model cars, past Toledo Machine & Tool Co., the Willys-Overland plant. Outside the heavy-meshed "strike fences" stood mocking, spindle-legged children, hard-muscled men, mustached old women. "Hello, rats!" they shouted. In front of -Electric Auto-Lite Co., scene of bloody labor battles between strikers and National Guardsmen, greybeards shook fists in the car windows. Men held up crudely-lettered signs: "Roosevelt Forever." "Win what with Willkie?" they bellowed. "To hell with Willkie...
...soldier boys. Colonel Pfeil & associates pish-tushed these reports, harrumphed that Army hostesses will be just as impregnable as ever. How many Colonel Pfeil needs will be determined when he knows how many new huts (each one generally has three hostesses) he has to build for incoming Guardsmen, conscripts and one-year volunteers...
...lately spent $200,000 for recreation and welfare, hopes soon to get $2,500,000 more from Congress. Biggest morale prop is the cinema: the Division already has more than 100 theatres at Army posts, expects to set up many more in new camps for conscripts and National Guardsmen. Colonel Pfeil has found that soldiers prefer Westerns, Hedy Lamarr, Ann Sheridan (in that order), dislike Connie Bennett and English actors...
...fleeting," Chief of Staff George C. Marshall fretted two months ago, begging Congress to speed up conscription and the appropriation of money to pay and house his new soldiers. He and other officers then estimated that if Congress acted quickly, 400,000 draftees and 240,000 newly mobilized National Guardsmen could be adequately cared for this winter...
This week the first 60,000 National Guardsmen reported for duty, before workmen had finished knocking together wood-&-canvas shelters. Many were put up temporarily in their local armories. The Army last week planned to call up its first 75,000 conscripts November 15, to have "adequate" housing for them by then, shelter for the rest by year's end. President Roosevelt asked Congress for $1,600,000,000 for pay, tents, barracks, mobilization expenses. War Department officers uneasily declared that no Guardsmen, no draftees would be wet or cold this winter, frantically pressed ahead with temporary housing projects...