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With smooth-running efficiency Selective Service machinery had moved the first 5,000,000 men into uniform. But fortnight ago, SSS hit one of the worst snarls in military conscription since the U.S. entered World War II: 1) Manpower Czar Paul McNutt switched the yardstick for deferment from dependency to essentiality; 2) local draft boards, tussling with changing classifications and categories, were unable to keep pace with the demand for Army & Navy manpower...
There were a lot more: BAE, BLS, DPI, ECC, EHFA, EIB, FCIC, FDA, NIC, NPPC, OADR, OGF, OCR, OLLA, OSRD, SCS, SSB, SSS, USSS, USES, USIS. Hardly a man was now alive who knows or needs to know most of them. If he did, he could not find them. They were moving: REA was on its way to St. Louis, one of 14 peacetime bureaus which had moved or were moving to make more Washington room for war agencies. SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) is now in Philadelphia, the Patent Office in Richmond. To Kansas City will soon...
...Selective Service System had disquieting news to report last week about the health of the nation. Last spring SSS had reported that 40% of the men examined for the draft had been rejected for physical defects. Last week's report, the result of a more thorough survey, upped the percentage of rejections to 50%. One man in every two had to be turned down for such causes as bad teeth (20.9%), substandard eyes (13.7%), heart and circulatory troubles (10.6%), venereal diseases (6.3%). The President took note, hinted that the Civilian Conservation Corps might undertake a program...
...evening last week an operator at the Miami station of Tropical Radio swung his receiver to the 36-metre band. It was 10:38 p.m., and the static was as noisy as an applauding audience. But faintly the operator heard: SSS . . . SSS . . .-the code for submarine attack...
...afternoon last week, at latitude 22:10 North, longitude 51:28 West-1,900 miles east of Havana, Cuba, on the regular trade route from Barbados to England-the wireless operator of the British tanker El Ciervo began tapping out an alarm: SSS...SSS...SSS...