Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miles southwest of Pearl Harbor, 2,100 from Australia's northern tip. From there the Jap could hit at the U.S.-Australia supply line, at the islands (close to that route) east of Australia, or even at Pearl Harbor itself. From there also he could sweep down and join the New Guinea-New Britain forces in an assault on Australia...
During the month of May, 5,000 U.S. doctors will join the Army as commissioned officers; in June another 3,000 will go. By the year's end, some 35,000 of the nation's 180,000 physicians will be in the armed forces.* How can qualified doctors be rushed into the Army at this rate and adequate medical service be maintained for the civilian population...
...public are willing to have Government 1) register all male civilians for work in defense industries "wherever they are needed," 2) "strictly ration all food or materials that might become scarce," 3) make war workers who strike join the Army or Navy...
...thinking, maintenance of membership is a compromise: it merely compels workers already in a union to keep on paying dues or lose their jobs; no one has to join the union, as in a closed shop. The Government-and-labor majority thinks that unions, which have given up the right to strike, are entitled to some protection, and that union security stabilizes industrial relations. This formula comes closest to freezing union-industry relations of any yet hit upon...
Forty experts in a broad range of topics concerning the war will address a two-week conference organized by the Nieman Foundation for May 18 to May 29. Delegates from more than 50 leading newspapers and periodicals have been invited to join this most comprehensive of war studies and hear such well-known speakers as Archibald MacLeish and Byron Price...