Word: nya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Naturally the Army wants no men with tuberculosis, chronic heart diseases, mental diseases. But the Selective Service System indicated that there would be treatment for some who will never be physically capable for full military service. What Government agency would give it was not stated. Presumably it would be NYA or CCC or both. Thus a big slice of defense funds would be spent to build up non-combatants as well as fighting...
...advice to kitchen gardeners. The petticoats disappeared. The secretary threw away his carnation. He could not get rid of his tie. "Blimey," he said, "I can't run around in front of a duke without a tie." Later the Duke organized his youth camps, a kind of British NYA, widely copied in the Dominions...
...Steps will promptly be taken for employment in Europe's rebuilding of every able-bodied person, especially youths (of whom Dr. Schairer estimates there will be 20,000,000 unemployed after the war), if necessary by new agencies like the Chinese cooperatives, British Youth Councils, NYA...
National Youth Administration has more than 400,000 youngsters enrolled in its 4,300 workshops, sends them to jobs at the rate of about 25,000 a month. In their own shops, housed in deserted factories and equipped with secondhand machinery, NYA enrollees make army cots, tool chests, torpedo parts. Last year they built six airports, improved 14. A big NYA expansion is slated next year; its budget will...
...Army volunteers have come from rural districts than any place else. Some have been drafted. More have quit their jobs to work in new aluminum plants at 60? an hour, as carpenters on new Army camps at $7 a day. Many a farmer or potential farmhand is on WPA, NYA or CCC rolls.* Average wage of U.S. farmhands rose from $27.45 and board in April 1940 to $31.56 (highest since 1930) in April 1941. But still it was increasingly hard to keep workers down on the farm...