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...WAAC (later the WAC) fought to make a place for itself, how it verged on humiliating failure and how success finally came, is told with bold candor and fine humor in the Army's official history of the corps...
Congress did its best to remedy the situation by giving the WAAC full military status. The WAAC became the WAC. Nonetheless, in August 1943 nationwide recruiting fell to 839-and the WAC was on the brink of extinction. Then, into the mind of Captain Jessie P. Rice, a former Georgia schoolteacher and sports reporter, came the idea of the "All-States Plan," under which each state was to recruit a WAC company that would carry the state flag and wear the armband in training. Business was persuaded to help, e.g., Standard Oil Co. of Indiana sent out posters...
Apples & Atabrine. But even the finest recruiting techniques could not have rescued the WAC had not the women proved themselves in the field. It was discovered that of the 629 listed military occupations, women could perform more than half (instead of the handful of jobs originally contemplated). It had been thought that three women might possibly do the work of two men. Instead, it was demonstrated that three women could stand in for four men on most jobs. In the Far-East, Air General George Stratemeyer was so pleased with the work of the WACs that he authorized them...
...haven't eaten butter since I was a WAC in Africa . . . With butter selling at 70? a Ib. and vegetable fats selling for 28?, my family eats the frugal choice. However, is that a good reason to give it away at 42?? If I could buy butter at 64? a Ib. (the price we taxpayers paid), I'd buy ten pounds at a time without its affecting my margarine purchases . . . If my example is any criterion, the Department of Agriculture's bitter butter problem could be solved in a few short weeks . . . Golly, I'd like...
...intention was that approval should be sought from the Roman Catholic Military Vicar of the U.S.-New York's Cardinal Spellman. But as reported from Madrid, his covenant seemed to say that the Spanish Catholic clergy could veto a marriage between a Protestant G.I. and a Catholic WAC or WAVE...