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...Army medical test, successfully passed, now means immediate induction, with immediate furloughs available for draftees who just have to straighten out their civilian affairs. The Army's speed in grabbing manpower does not please the Navy. Determined to man ships with volunteers, the Navy formerly got quite a few youngsters who had passed the Army test, changed over to the Navy before induction. Although the Navy has had more than 140,000 volunteers since Pearl Harbor, it needs a minimum of 45,000 enlistments monthly. Last week the Navy sent out a press release, thoughtfully reminding draftees that...
...word, are now adjusting their traditional programs. This is the result, in part, of a desire to attract more students to those fields and to broaden the analytic powers of those already taking courses in them. Of deeper consequence however, is the realization of the necessity to straighten the lines even of subjects only remotely connected with...
...after school). Miss Fenner rarely sits at her librarian's desk. While children sign out their own books, she tours the bookshelves, listening gravely to criticisms of stories, helping choose books. She also runs a stamp club, a dramatic club (for acting stories), a library club (to help straighten books, stamp cards, etc.), a storytelling hour...
...doubted Eleanor Roosevelt's good intentions. And many a citizen thought it likely that James McCauley Landis, OCD's executive director, might be able to straighten out OCD's compound confusion if he were given a free hand-which meant, if Mrs. Roosevelt would step out. All over the U.S. everyone prayed that Mrs. Roosevelt's admirable energy would find some less dangerous plaything...
...that he did not even know the appointees, the Little Flower retorted: "Try reading the telephone book instead of the Social Register, you might get to know more people." He also began screeching about some of Mr. Morgan's appointments. He had not time to see Mr. Morgan, straighten things out. Mr. Morgan's slowly heating choler reached boiling point...