For the last three months U.S. draft boards failed to meet the quotas of the armed forces. Last week the Selective Service system told Congress what it proposed to do: turn the heat on, double its dips into U.S. manpower.
A "considerable number" of the new draftees will be pre-Pearl Harbor fathers, of whom only 90,000 so far have been inducted.
Only by drawing on fathers heavily can the Army & Navy hope to get the 699,000 more men they will need by July 1, plus an unpredictable total of recruits (estimate: 600,000) that...
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