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Erskine Caldwell Jr., almost 17, tried to jump the gun on the age minimum, applied for enlistment in the Marine Corps in Augusta, Me. His mother said she had no objection...
...supply any; 2) vastly increased needs for alcohol for smokeless powder (see p. 66) may throw all the supply figures galley west; 3) nobody knows how much sugar the U.S. may have to Lend-Lease to Britain, the U.S.S.R., other allies. But the Commodity Research Bureau last week estimated minimum raw-sugar supplies for 1942 of 4,575,000 short tons, not counting any at all from Hawaii or the Philippines. This, added to the estimated carryover of 3,786,000 tons, amounts to 5% more than 1941's record consumption, including hoarding...
Lowering the minimum age for enlistment to 18, the Army Air Corps has in addition set aside the old requirement of two years of college training for all applicants. Instead it has ruled that candidates must without exception pass a revised Aptitude Test before admission into the Air Force...
...Until the government alters its present policy, the duty of the College at all its students, as I see it, is to give them the maximum of information and the minimum of advice...
...Until the government alters its present policy, the duty of the College at all its students, as I see it, is to give them the maximum of information and the minimum of advice...