Army's hopper
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Army's hopper
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Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
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Title: Army's hopper
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OW does the Army handle the problem of re-
ceiving, sorting, classifying, and uniforming
the thousands of men, called for service by the
draft, who descend on army reception centers?
The answer is found in the army hoppers, like the one
pictured at the right, where civilians are transformed
into uniformed privates, with all the precision and
efficiency of a factory assembly line. Two hundred sixty
feet long and sixty feet wide, the wooden structure
draws civilians in its main door, guides them in orderly
fashion through a maze of rooms and corridors, and
turns them out through another door at the rate of 200
an hour. Not all of the draftees who enter the hopper
emerge as soldiers, for although the civilians have all
had a preliminary physical examination in their home
localities before arriving at the army reception center,
experience in the last World War draft indicates that
approximately one in twelve will be rejected for physical
reasons. Provision is therefore made for guiding the
rejected men back through the same door they entered,
without confusing or interrupting the steady flow of
men through the complete hopper process. There is at
least one hopper at the reception center for each of the
nine corps areas of the Army.
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Language (Dublin Core)
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Eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1941-01
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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92-93
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public domain
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Sami Akbiyik
Popular Science Monthly, v. 138, n. 1, 1941
