Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...August 1942, while I was file clerk of the 726th M.P. Battalion, Camp Beauregard, La., I handled the papers of a recruit who was grey-haired and well over 60 years of age. He had 15,988 days "bad time" (AWOL) and a year and a half unexpired term of a three-year enlistment remaining to be served...
...Prague, on Oct. 28, 1918, the National Council proclaimed the founding of the Czechoslovak Republic. As secretary-general of the National Council, Benes had striven for Allied recognition, helped recruit a Czechoslovak army abroad, served as the workhorse of his cause. "Without Benes," said President Masaryk, "we never would have had the Republic...
...order does not include officers. But it brings the Red Army's top age level for privates and noncommissioned officers down to 32. Chief benefit to Russia (and probably the prime reason): farms and factories, starved for qualified man-&-woman-power during the war, will recruit millions of foremen, technicians and reasonably adept laborers for the new piatiletka (FiveYear Plan) recently announced by Stalin...
...thoroughly combing the market, Fleischaker & Baum Co. gave up the search for human hair for their life like EffanBee Dolls. (Prewar EffanBee Dolls wore human hair imported from Italy and China.) In Leominster, Mass., F. A. Whitney Carriage Co. was ready to make doll carriages again, but could not recruit enough ex-war workers who were willing to work for peacetime wages...
...Recruit Wanted. In Philadelphia, an aircraft-carrier crew searched in vain for a mascot - all available monkeys were either too young...