Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even on the basis of its current limited set-up, the Office is understaffed. It has complained that too many men, instead of getting started during their Sophomore or Junior years, wait until a few weeks before graduating to go for a conference. But the 640 men, mostly Seniors, interviewed during the last year were about all its one Director and two Executive Secretaries could handle. If more Sophomores and Juniors are to use the facilities of the Office, which they should do if they want to reap the greatest gains, it must expand its size to absorb them...
Hasty Hearts. In Springfield, Mo., after a 30-year courtship, Roy Saltsgraver at last got a yes, married Anna Wickersham across the state line in Arkansas to avoid Missouri's three-day-wait...
...drugged with morphine every three hours. Dr. Zolton Tillson Wirtschafter, of Wadsworth General Hospital for veterans in Los Angeles, decided to try something new. With most of the tense hospital staff standing by, he gave the suffering patient a couple of injections and settled down to wait...
Lieut. Abramowitz turned away all would-be converts, sincere or not. His stock answer to suppliants was: "Wait until the Jews have their own chief rabbi here. Let him decide." He explained, without bitterness, that his motive was not a projection of the "eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth" doctrine. The Jews were too much hurt, he says. Along with other rabbis and chaplains he feels that the time is not yet ripe for Germans to be admitted into the Jewish faith...
...cars. In Dallas, salesmen were offering delivery in five hours; the delay was only for servicing, registration, etc. And in Los Angeles, where plans for a K-F assembly line have been shelved, one dealer anxiously asked an impatient customer: "Well, would half an hour be too long to wait...