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Every part of the U.S. and Canada is now being teased-by mail, telephone and telegraph-with their slick promotion patter: "unusual opportunity" . . . "quick profits" . . . "get in on the ground floor." Discharged servicemen, who get lump-sum mustering-out pay, are given top priority; a Buffalo, N.Y. ex-serviceman began receiving tip sheets from Toronto within a few days after a Buffalo paper printed his picture...
...vast armies of men soon to return from the mud and foxholes of overseas combat will demand adequate incomes and assurance of continuous employment," Mordecai Johnson, President of Howard University, and guest preacher at Appleton Chapel, declared in an interview yesterday. "The returning serviceman will regard this security not as a bonus but as a prerogative implied when conscription itself went into effect...
These girls are on call, and often work 24 hours a day. Many of them working in the front lines have died at their post of duty. . . . (SERVICEMAN'S NAME WITHHELD) Colorado Springs, Colo...
...soldiers had lost at least one arm or leg in World War II. Of these, 331 have lost two limbs. There have been no "basket cases" (all four). Last week at Washington's Walter Reed Hospital, Corporal Ralph A. Brown of Youngstown, Ohio, the second serviceman to lose three limbs, viewed his future cheerfully. His plans: to walk out of the hospital; to go back to the dairy business...
...serviceman's wife writing thus to her husband probably suffers from a condition whose other symptoms include severe depressions, colitis, heart palpitations, diarrhea, frequent headaches. Described as a "new disease" by Dr. Jacob Sergi Kasanin, chief psychiatrist at San Francisco's Mt. Zion Hospital, this psychoneurotic condition by last week had become so prevalent among service wives that San Francisco psychiatrists were begging county authorities for the use of hospital wards to treat their patients. An estimated 2,500 women in San Francisco alone have undergone treatment for psychoneurosis during the past 18 months...