Word: wac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Advertising Council last fortnight withdrew its support from Surgeon General Thomas Parran's campaign against venereal disease. The council is a nonprofit organization of advertising men which prepares the publicity and posters for such drives as WAC recruiting and war bonds. It helped the venereal disease cam paign at the request of OWI and the U.S. Public Health Service. It stopped cooperating at the request of conservative groups of Roman Catholics. (Surgeon General Parran is himself a Catholic...
...idea was that national advertisers would support the VD campaign just as they had the war bond drives and WAC recruiting...
With the liberation Joliot assumed charge of the reorganization of French scientific research. His scientist wife, daughter of Madame Curie, shrugs off the dangerous years. Says she: "They [the Nazis] didn't worry me much. They seemed to mix me up with my sister [famed French WAC officer, Eve Curie] and looked somewhat puzzled when they met me, but I never helped them to work out the family relationship...
...this blah-blah about those nine WAC officers (TIME, Sept 11). Phooey...
...while she taught ballet, but she missed her husband more & more. The WAC and the Red Cross refused to let her volunteer for service in the Pacific because she had been born in Germany, had not become naturalized until after war broke out. But, knowing that her husband was somewhere in the Southwest Pacific, determined Mrs. Shake finally persuaded the captain of a Norwegian freighter, bound for Sydney, to sign her on as a pantrymaid in the officers' mess...