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...thousand four hundred seasick cows wished that they were in a nice Kansas City slaughterhouse. They were on their way to Panama to supply U.S. Army men with a daily quota of 14,000 quarts of fresh milk. According to Dr. Charles Edward North, Manhattan consulting milk sanitarian and an enthusiastic expert, the unhappy cows could have stayed at home. The soldiers need never have known the difference...
...although shipbuilders may not launch their full quota, repair yards this year have set a new and brilliant record. In a recent twelve-month period they overhauled and refitted some 5,500 ships (of over 1,000 tons each) and they did this in the incredibly short time of an average of 17 days per ship...
...recruiting was halted in 43 of the States which had met or passed their quotas. No State has exceeded its quota by more than New Mexico's 224% of expected enlistments. The five States which have not met their quotas are those with the highest concentration of doctors and patients-New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Illinois, California...
...Since then probably one out of three U.S. physicians has joined the colors. The Army's adjutant general has banned the release of specific figures, but last week the Procurement & Assignment Service of WMC (which recruits the doctors) said it was a safe assumption that the entire 1942 quota of 42,000 doctors had been filled...
Student Council drives have always been an underrated service to students. By performing all distribution personally, the Council has prevented continual drives by individual agencies each intent only upon filling its own quota. This has eliminated an eternal undergraduate nuisance, and guaranteed student support of numerous worth-while causes. Without such a system students would be called on for far more than the modest seven dollars asked by the Fund. They would be tossed from "worthy cause" to "worthy cause," winding up too strapped to support that final "last drive" which really the worthiest of them...