Word: furloughs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...silver-haired Manpower Commissioner, Paul Vories McNutt. At a press conference the President speculated long and earnestly on the situation, pointing to the big batch of letters and telegrams he had received on farm labor shortages (see p. 22), suggesting that it might be wise for the Army to furlough some of its 35 -to -45 year-olds for work in factory and field. Forthwith, the Army began to furlough 4,000 miners to go back to copper, lead and zinc fields...
Inducted into the Army in San Francisco, William Saroyan, the drama's expositor of the throbbing heart. He immediately took the two-week furlough allowed him, went off duck hunting. Explained his family: he wanted to find out what it felt like to shoot something...
...Soldiers, sailors and Marines, bent on fun or a furlough home, hock rings, watches, civvies, tailor-made officer uniforms, trench coats, portable radios-anything but Government-issued goods, which hock shops cannot accept. To the amazement of pawnbrokers, servicemen are quick to redeem their property-especially the ubiquitous wrist watch inscribed from the "girl back home...
...have disappeared, but as is natural enough, some of it lingers on in the poetry. Old idols cannot be so easily and quickly uncrowned. Obscurity, still one of them, reigns supreme in Phemister's three love sonnets. Musically reminiscent of Donne, they lack Donne's fine-grained intensity. In "Furlough" Crockett tries with some success to fit a difficult French verse form to a mood of lyric nostalgia, but the same attempt in "Embarkation" does not come off as well. Both, however, are considerable improvements on his earlier work. Harrison's "The Trap" is a rather conventional cry of despair...
This close call taught the 34-year-old, Maryland-born A. P. man a lesson. When he returned to the U.S. last March for his first furlough in four years, he learned to swim. This precaution may have saved his life at Tobruk. Allen remained in the U.S. long enough to collect a Pulitzer Prize for his work and to say no to the horde of book publishers, radio and lecture impresarios, who rushed at him, checkbooks in hand. The unassuming "darling" of the British Mediterranean fleet said he just wanted to go on doing his job ("I would find...