Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four days at the Los Angeles Navy recruiting station 500 to 600 men who took draft officials at their word were in line and two extra medical examining rooms were opened to accommodate the crowd. The Marine recruiting office was snowed under. So was the Coast Guard. An office set up by the Army to recruit ground crews was as swamped as the Navy...
...G.O.P. in Minnesota gave out no wild cheers over this sudden recruit. Young silo-shaped Governor Harold E. Stassen, architect of Minnesota's new G.O.P., had not planned any rooms in the Republican house for guest stars. He had just enough for his own. Stassen had already sent to the Senate one of them, Joe Ball, a rangy newspaperman with a stomachful of courage...
Every soldier has to go through an interminable regimen of Army inoculations. A medical attendant punctures the recruit's arm with "a hypodermic needle that looks like an air pump for Zeppelins. . . . You walk away, saying, 'Well, that wasn't too bad.' Then, suddenly, you fall to the floor in a dead faint. When you wake up, you look at your arm and discover the bicep [sic] you never suspected was there...
...final chaotic note was supplied by Vichy's sweating, white-tied Pierre Laval. He apparently took the Schutzstaffel seizures as a rebuke to him for failing to recruit the 350,000 French workers whom Hitler wanted in Germany. Pierre Laval had been able to recruit a mere 18,000, including many unskilled French Arabs. Laval was hurt by his German bosses' lack of consideration. By way of characteristically weak-chinned protest he called Vichy's Paris agent, Fernand de Brinon, back to the unhappy...
Fifty-six Military Science 3 men visited Camp Devens Saturday, after arriving in a ten-car convoy executing a military problem. First touring the Recruit Reception Center, quartermaster warehouses, firing range, and a mechanized cavalry unit, they later moved into tents for a night camp...