Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...amazement, your Aug. 24 issue says: "The Navy traced little Ned, found he had dreamed it all up." Never has such an accusation been more ill-founded. I have taken the trouble to obtain definite proof of the accuracy of my son's letter, including, specifically, the camouflaged tent, the hidden short-wave transmitter and the bayonet. Furthermore, despite the retraction currently attributed to the Navy, I quote in full the Navy's letter to him, written on the spot, at the time...
...deferred a selectee because he was a "farm and ranch" hand. The draft board figured that this classification fitted 90% of its registrants, got mad, said that if headquarters felt that way about it, the Fisher County Draft Board "should in duty to the citizenry take immediate steps to obtain the release of a number of men who have been sent to the Army...
...Crimson Network had been making an all out effort for the past week to obtain Hildegarde, who is at present singing at the Copley Plaza. Hildegarde, known as "the dear that made Milwaukee famous," is as much known for her looks as for her vocal attainments and members of the Crimson Network are afraid that listeners will make the best part of the show...
Experience at both Yale and Princeton indicates that a personal pledge system is the only way to obtain 100% coverage, and that buying on a purely voluntary and unsystematic basis has been unsuccessful...
...irksome anyway (TIME, Aug. 3), and tough Ferd Eberstadt of the Army & Navy Munitions Board, think they know a much simpler way to balance supply & demand. They would adopt a reasonable facsimile of Germany's plan-a warrant system whereby each war contract, when made, includes warrants to obtain specific quantities of materials at the specific times when they are needed. This is vertical allocation v. Purp's horizontal allocation. The Navy is so enthusiastic about it that WPB is going to test it out in the radio industry, starting this week...