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...virtue of this mandate, I ... do induct, install and enthrone you, Most Reverend Father in God, Geoffrey . . . into the archbishopric and the office of the Archbishop of Canterbury...
...Selective Service Bureau will shift state and local quotas in an attempt to induct all available non-fathers, wherever they may reside, before drafting of fathers begins. (But non-fathers with occupational deferments will not be taken...
...effort to induct and train new recruits to man our merchant ships, the Marltime Commission has been sending a steady stream of raw material, all volunteers, through its four months' school at Sheepshead Bay, New York. All amateur sailors, when inducted at local offices of the Commission, must agree to serve at sea for a full year after they have completed their training in elementary seamanship. Physical requirements for applicants are especially tough, much similar to regular Army specifications...
Most of the men inducted into the armed forces in the next two or three months, said Draft Director Hershey, will be married men with children. Reason: "There will be nobody left to induct...
Bottom of the Barrel. The U.S. was finally scraping the bottom of its manpower barrel. Planning to induct about 400,000 men a month, it has already found that the leavings are thin indeed. General Hershey reported that rejections (mainly for physical and occupational reasons) already run from 35 to 40%, are expected to increase. By the end of the year only 3,000,000 fit men in the 18-37 age bracket will be left in civilian life...