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WASHINGTON--The nation today stepped up the tempo of preparations for the first peacetime draft of manpower in American history...
Last week the tempo of life in the U. S. was stepped up. In all fields except Congress, where the draft was still debated, there was action and lots of it-political, diplomatic, military. There was action in Elwood, Ind., where Wendell Willkie accepted the Republican nomination for President. There was action in Washington. Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace resigned to campaign for the Vice-Presidency. There were resignations, new appointments. And there was the action of President Roosevelt, who announced at his press conference that he had sent observers to watch the Nazi attack on Great Britain, and that...
...Lancet had no data indicating whether drunkenness increased with the recent tempo of the war. It wondered "whether, in fact, we are becoming a tight little island in both senses of the word...
...Once Ellsworth saw an old male porcupine who was shuffling around, "emotionally upset." Suddenly he hunched up his back, drew his forefeet close to his body, stood on his hind legs and thumped his feet, clicking his teeth in fast tempo like castanets...
...Canada which had faced war last year with six destroyers, less than 300 military airplanes and an active militia of just over 4,000 men, had come a good piece. Minister of Munitions and Supply C. D. Howe told the House of Commons: "Canada's industrial tempo is at its highest peak in history." Airplane production, he said, was already at the rate of 1,300 a year and would reach 4,320 next year. Eleven types were already in production, and more on the drafting board. When plant equipment is completed, the country will produce 30 tanks...