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...Island log and made their record "as accurate and factual as possible." But the participants and their conduct at ease and in combat are fictional. The people who are supposed to give flesh & blood to Wake Island-a tough major (Brian Donlevy), a tough lieutenant (Macdonald Carey), a tough contractor (Albert Dekker), a tough team of comic privates (Robert Preston & William Bendix)-are sincerely invented and acted, but hopelessly unreal in so stern a context. Not even Brian Donlevy, who does his job as soberly as if it were a military assignment, can quite convince anyone that he is anything...
...dodge the Army's ban on all aircraft-company interim reports, both companies did some fancy footwork: United cagily labeled itself "a Navy contractor." Aviation Corp. wriggled through the loophole exempting all companies which have less than one-third their total business in finished planes...
This gusher of war work has boosted Continental sales and profits to record peaks. Last year the company cleared $3,232,000 on sales of $31,565,000. Because the company is a prime Air Corps contractor, this year's figures are secret. One clue: because skyrocketing production has greatly reduced unit costs, the Army last March was able to chop $40,000,000 off the company's backlog by merely shaving prices...
...voluntary trial flopped. But last month Don Nelson ordered every war contractor to fill out the big blue Purp blanks or else. This week is the deadline for all 25,000 of them to file their estimated materials needs for the last quarter of 1942, and to tell what they did with the materials allocated them last spring. These reports will provide millions of statistics. The real test of Purp will be what use, if any, WPB can make of such a mountain of figures...
...really knows: 1) how much of what materials there is to be fought over, 2) how much their own suppliers' really minimum needs are, 3) what really happens to their allotments once they are fed to the factories. Ever since war production began in a big way, every contractor has been so anxious to be well-heeled with materials (and so sure of being shortchanged) that he has been inclined to ask for more than he needed at any one moment. There is no reason to believe Purp can stop this overestimating, since contractors can always alibi later that...