Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because Meade was a closed-shop job, workers had been forced to join either the A. F. of L. carpenters' union or laborers' union. At the peak, 11,800 laborers got jobs. The carpenters' union could supply only 200 of its regular members, but 8,113 carpenters had to be hired. Army men said that about 55% of them were roughwork carpenters, 35% were not fully qualified. "Sears Roebuck carpenters" arrived at the site with $5 worth of new tools and a desire to cut in on the Government bonanza. But the unions were the boys...
...Three more battleships were coming along four months ahead of schedule. Well on their way to completion were an aircraft carrier, six light cruisers, seven submarines, eight destroyers. The 35,000-ton dreadnoughts North Carolina and Washington-the first new capital ships in 18 years-would be ready to join the Navy in July...
...Manhattan from Lisbon came handsome, Hungarian-born George H. Mendelssohn, 29, looking rather more like a U. S. collegiate than the great-great-grandson of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. Before going off to join the U. S. Army, Emigre Mendelssohn confided that in his own musical composition he stuck to jazz -"classical jazz...
...join the Battalion will get a training that will prepare them for possible further service. They will drill every Monday evening and will stand ready for brief mobilizations on the call of the Governor. Thursday drill is voluntary. The instruction will include rifle range practice, bayonet practice, and riot formation drills...
Anyone not immediately eligible for the draft may join up, although Massachusetts men are preferred. Men not acceptable to the Draft Board for minor reasons are also eligible. Applicants should contact a captain of the Guard, Felix W. Knauth '18, of 26 Circuit Road, Chestnut Hill, or George E. Abbot '17, of 10 Circuit Road, or else call at the Commonwealth Armory at 8 o'clock tomorrow...