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...acquire that increment of manpower, Secretary Forrestal would clamp selective service on the 3,600,000 young men aged 19 to 25. To provide the added strength, and constant replacements, the total number needed in the first year: 720,000. Even with deferments for World War II veterans, married men, doctors, scientists, etc., it ought not to be hard for the Government to fill that quota. It might be hard on some young men. The draft would be for a minimum of two years. The Government might register all U.S. men from 19 to 45, just to have everybody...
Recent developments, Professor Black added, make any precipitous rise in public spending particularly dangerous now. Pointing to numerous wage increases, particularly in the basic industry of coal, Professor Black saw a spending increment made possible by terminal leave cash as an ominous inflation threat...
Wearing a seersucker jacket, explains Dolan, first gave him a social conscience. When OPA lifted cotton controls last November, his favorite model skyrocketed from $17.50 to $22.50. He wrote to his congressman, as soon as his furnishers mailed him a bill for the increment...
Dean Sherman conjectured that the increment in college imbibing might be due in part to the enlarged veteran complement. Servicemen's threats have been inured to such potent potions as "jungle juice" and the high concentrations achieved by amateur distillers with fermenting fruit in closed gasoline tins. Such concoctions passed the "pressure purity test" when they blew off the sealed...
...exact figures on the increment of the 1941 Yale weekend liquor consumption were available from a thorough tapping of sources and kegs. George H. O'Brien, genial provisioned of the Mount Auburn oasis, is relying on his memory and his well stocked cellar to meet the boom in demand...