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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME (June 29) says that the Army will take men with 20-100 vision for glider pilot training. Information given us by the Army for use in recruiting gives eye requirement minimum as 20-40 without glasses, correctible...
...TIME'S statement and a similar one appearing in the June 20 Army & Navy Register were based on information from the U.S. Army Recruiting Service, First Corps Area, Boston and the First Corps Area was wrong. The minimum eye requirement for prospective glider pilots is still 20-40, correctible...
...Ministry of Fuel, Light & Power, which has just begun trying to manage coal efficiently for the duration, has no power over wages. But last week the Mineworkers' Federation (union) accepted from an independent tribunal the first national minimum wage in the history of British coal: $16.60 per week...
...program has been considerably liberalized of late. Eye requirements have been lowered (but not below 12-20) and the opportunities for Specialists Commissions for men with 12-20 eyes increased. The 35,000 officer candidates quota first set as a maximum, is now regarded as a minimum. V-1 officers will be in Lowell C-12 all day Monday, to explain this to men from '44, '45, and '46. A V-5 officer will be there as well, and at the same time the Army Air Force has a representative stationed in Lowell...
...many months have passed the draft age will be lowered to 19 or 18," Conant said, and explained that each House would soon have an adviser on V-1 and on the Army enlisted plan so as to take care of men who wish to insure themselves of a minimum of college before they enter the Service...