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...load on the national economy that a total armed force of 11,100,000 will bring to the U.S., another generally unforeseen burden was added last week. Selective Service's Major General Lewis B. Hershey and Colonel Lewis Sanders hefted it for a Congressional Committee. Their prediction: to maintain itself at top strength, the U.S. will have to draft not 11,100,000, but 12,000,000. Reason: this year, at home and abroad, there will be 900,000 casualties...
Although such a statement has been imminent for the past weeks, last night's unforeseen delay extended the "period of transition" indefinitely...
...distinguishing feature of these Council Scholarships are the conditions under which they are given. The basis for selection is not high scholastic ability but the particular need of a student whose College life may be threatened by an unforeseen financial exists...
...strategists counted on having to maintain a continuous offensive, once the invasion began? Or had unforeseen events upset careful plans for just such an offensive? It might have been expected that the Japs at their nearby bases would give the U.S. forces no rest, once the Solomons were invaded. Had the Navy expected to draw the Japs into another Midway, instead of the dispersal and infiltration by sea which the Japanese actually practiced? Said Admiral Ernest J. King, in explaining the Solomons invasion last August: "Considerable losses, such as are inherent in any offensive operation, must be expected...
...Clark were cautiously for it. The Treasury said nothing audible, though some of its experts were worrying over the breaks it gives taxpayers with big incomes in 1941 v. 1942. This Mr. Ruml admitted, but he contended that the benefits to most taxpayers far outweighed the extraordinary (and wholly unforeseen) benefits...