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...tell all that is going on in Washington at the Congressional hearings on the draft bill? Why not disclose that Army leaders admit they have been getting more than their quota on a voluntary three-year enlistment and have a waiting list? Why not tell that the compromise suggests instead the proposal to give young men a chance to volunteer on a one-year basis at $30 a month instead of the present $21 and three-year enlistment? Why not bring out that the Gallup Poll, which you use as an argument for conscription, did not get the poll...
...would nave enrolled 121,500 recruits in the two-and-a-half-month period. As it was, 85,000 volunteers signed up for a three-year enlistment. This figure broke another peacetime record. The Army theoretically needed only 95,000 more men to reach its previously authorized 375,000 quota, but since several thousand enlistments expire every month, about 5,000 men have first to be recruited every month before any increase can be recorded...
...born looking for a fight. Limited to 20% of Navy personnel, the Marine Corps's strength was recently raised from 25,000 men to 34,000. Last week its roster was full. The Navy, with only 53,000 recruits to go to fill its authorized quota of 193,000, was in no hurry to get them, figured that next March would be time enough to complete its full fighting strength. Reasons for the superior drawing power of the Navy over the Army were better pay, more chance to see the world. A leatherneck recruiting officer put it another...
...streamlinable power plants. It will continue to be the only hope until another, possibly the Rolls-Royce Merlin (TIME, July 15), is put into production in a U. S. factory. Last week Allison's production was reputedly rising from a monthly rate of about 30 to its fall quota of 125. It still had a long way to go to its estimated production top, 500-600 a month. The Curtiss factory at Buffalo was meanwhile howling for Allisons for its P-4O pursuit ships, was understood to have 70 to 100 waiting for engines. Bell Aircraft, manufacturer...
...former it planned to lend $65,000,000 to buy 150,000 tons of rubber; to the latter $100,000,000 to acquire 75,000 tons of tin and other strategic metals. London reacted promptly to the new demand, the international tin cartel upped its export quota from 100 to 130% of standard (or at the rate of 271,661 tons a year), a new high; the rubber cartel from 80 to 85% (1,131,160 tons a year...