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Later in the day Alan K. Campbell, assistant director of the Summer School, issued a call for all those interested in doing volunteer soliciting to sign up with Sue Davis, secretary, in 1 Sever Hall. No quota has been set for the school as a whole, although the original Cambridge goal of $7,000 was doubled yesterday as a result of special appeals from Red Cross officials in Wyandotte and Jackson counties...
...chits and were trying to buy steel for resale on the grey market. Most were established companies, many of them in direct defense production. Chrysler Corp., for example, with 10% of its space turned over to arms output, said that it would not be able to produce its quota of cars this quarter. It might even have to close down next month unless it gets more steel...
Twice before in its 176-year history, the proud U.S. Marine Corps had trained draftees to fill its ranks, but not until last week did it have to ask for them. Enlistments were now below the corps' 6,000-man monthly recruiting quota. Furthermore, 75,000 reservists on active duty are soon to be let out, and the Marines* are already hard put to fill their ranks. Selective Service promised the Marines 13,000 draftees in the next two months and more later if enlistments keep on sagging...
...Full Quota. At Camp Strong, Japan, after he received a recruiting folder informing him that he would win a medal if he could sign up a few men for a state militia unit in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 45th Division Sergeant Gene Evans wrote back that he had signed up his whole company (mostly from Tulsa), was awaiting transfer orders...
...feeling still persists that Harvard is not getting its full quota of men who are outstanding "leaders" as well as scholars...