Word: provisioners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reports from Washington indicated last night that the emergency provision in the Army Enlisted Reserve program that reservists may be called up at any time, would become effective by mid-years. Although no immediate demand for all men in the ERC was threatened, the statement acknowledged that war manpower needs...
Plans to distribute college physicists effectively between the services and industrial research are almost completely non-existent. Although high-frequency men can enlist in the Signal Corps Reserve, no provision has been made for other science concentrators who must fill the many semitechnical jobs in both combatant and noncombatant fields...
Goaded by Illinois' Dirksen and Missouri's Cannon, the House flatly refused to let any of the Government wheat be sold for less than an arbitrary sliding-scale price that would work out at about $1.34. So that Franklin Roosevelt could not veto this provision, the farm bloc...
Besides being almost eight times prewar budget size, and nearly as large as Canada's entire national income in 1939, the new $3,900,000,000 bill called for what amounted to compulsory savings for corporations and individuals. Excess-profits taxes were upped from 75% to 100%, with the...
*Where husband & wife may split their income in separate returns and thus save on high surtaxes. They are: Arizona, California, New Mexico, Nevada, Idaho, Louisiana, Texas, Washington (same provision optional in Oklahoma).