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...highest in history. In the scramble to get into action, 60,000 men joined the Army, 56,000 the Navy, 18,000 the Marine Corps. The Coast Guard, which issues no figures on total monthly enlistments, was so swamped with volunteers that it had to take recruits on a quota system. The Marine Corps, its membership boosted to 85,000, has doubled its strength of a year and a half ago. Its goal...
Nobody could buy a new car or truck in the U.S. last week. Nobody can until a rationing system is worked out-probably by Jan. 15. OPM barred all civilian sales. Furthermore, OPA told Detroit that its January production quota would be its last. By month's end the assembly lines will dead-stop...
Meanwhile the automakers had wangled an important last-minute concession from Washington: they can make 204,848 more cars this month before they close down. Since this is double the January quota set a month ago, it made the manufacturers feel pretty chipper. Washington did not. Only reason for any automobiles at all in January is that the automakers jiggled the priorities-allocations machinery artfully enough to pile up $213,000,000 in finished and semi-finished parts. None of these parts can be used in war work, so Washington ruefully okayed the quota boost. This will...
Emmons is now waiting to hear from Government quarters exactly what quota of men his course will be permitted to train this semester. Permission has already been granted to Harvard to extend the training to two students from Pan American countries, and selection of these men is now under way. It is still possible, of course, that with the war emergency, the Government will cease civilian training and place all pilot instruction in the hands of the Army and Navy...
...Dean Chauncey's office receives a call for volunteers, emergency or otherwise, the appeal will go straight to the sub-committee concerned. From there it goes out to the students who have indicated their desire to do the particular kind of work. By this division of labor the volunteer quota for any one call should be filled inside of thirty minutes...