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ministration said the new steel ration assures a speedup next spring in expansion of vital pub lic services — highways, bridges, power, barges, railroad cars and locomotives. DRAFT MAY DIP TO 19-YEAR-OLDS Selective Service said this week that any of its state directors who find it necessary to draft 19-year-olds to fill upcoming calls for the armed forces may do so. An official told a reporter he did not know how many states would be forced to take 19-year olds to meet the cad for 53,000 mcli for the Army ;n February "but it will be several.' The official said there had been some misunderstanding con cerning a February, 1952, direc tive to the states that they should draft all men 20-years of age or older before taking any 19-year olds. SAYS REDS OUTBUILD U. S. IN PLANES 3 TO 1 Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg. Air Force chief of staff. believes Soviet Russia has produced five
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