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...this same 58,000 was more than double the initial mark of 25,000, upped sixfold after the Army had discovered the usefulness of its women auxiliaries. And every woman jill of them was a volunteer, who had endured the cheap jokes and poor public reactions of the WAAC's early weeks. WAACs were sure that if enrollment had not proceeded according to plan the fault lay with the plan-and with U.S. women and kinsfolk...
After a seven day blackout President Roosevelt came out of his self-made darkness this Tuesday, revealed himself in Mexico. He had toured the Southern states, visited a Marine base, a WAAC training center and five Army posts, talked to various Southern Democratic Governors. Then he had crossed the border into Mexico for a conference with President Avila Camacho at Monterrey. It was the first time since 1909 that heads of the two republics had met face to face. Tuesday evening they went on the air for a joint broadcast...
...night was like Saturday night. People filled the Broadways and Main Streets, crowded streetcars, buses, factories, restaurants, post offices, stood in line at bars, theaters, nightclubs, bowling alleys. In their tin hats, they worked together in San Francisco shipyards: ex-college professors, white-collar workers, women, Chinese, Italians, Negroes, WAAC uniforms marched two abreast down the narrow sidewalks of Des Moines; WAVE uniforms swished neatly up & down Stillwater, Okla. Soldiers packed the nation's hotels, spilled over into boardinghouses, slept in railroad stations, pool halls, sometimes tramped the streets all night...
...nineteen twenties gangster-moll-machines gun picture has gone with prohibition. But there is no law against taking the same plot, putting a WAVE, WAAC or other chic uniform on the heroine, wrapping it in an American flag and feeding it to the hordes of wishful Miniver Cheevies who frequent the institution of the movies, Saturday afternoon variety or otherwise...
...some jobs-typing, switchboard operation, clerical duty-WAACs not only relieve soldiers for combat duty, they also do the jobs better. In these chores a WAAC relieves one soldier or even one and a-half. But as an automobile driver one WAAC is equal to only three-quarters of a soldier. Reason: less physical endurance...