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After the war, Baruch offered his country three modest recommendations for preparedness: a skeleton defense staff of civilians, a skeleton munitions industry, a subsidy for the home production of imported strategic materials. None of them was followed. Fifteen years later, under onetime Board Member Hugh Johnson, NRA modeled its code authorities on the old war service committees. Such committees and trade associations are far more numerous and better versed in self-regulation than were their prototypes of 1916. But if the Board itself were to take up where it left off, its methods might not be so gentle. To Baruch...
Northeastern University's powerful nine is highly favored to come out on top against the skeleton team that Coach Floyd Stahl will field when the two squads meet for their annual contest this afternoon at 4 o'clock on Soldiers Field...
...Great Britain discontinued its contraband control bases at Weymouth in the south and The Downs on the southeast English coast, removed all but a skeleton staff from the control base at Kirkwall in the Orkneys...
Great Britain withdrew her controls from Weymouth and The Downs partly because of Germany's new proximity in The Netherlands, but chiefly because, when the war reached the Low Countries, the Allies' northern blockade of Germany became practically 100%. The skeleton crew at Kirkwall will look over only the few ships bound for Sweden, Finland, Russia and her Baltic satellites...
Inactive in peace time, it consists entirely of reserve officers grouped into regiments which contain no private soldiers, nothing' but officers. These skeleton regiments will be filled out by volunteers and by the draft in the event...