Word: furloughs
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...relatively mild winter. But British families do without meat because there is not enough coal to swap for Argentine beef; French steel mills stand idle for lack of coal and coke. The Dutch army all but disappeared over the holidays, when the government gave its soldiers an eleven-day furlough to save precious coal. Sweden sells its high-grade iron ore to Communist Poland instead of supplying its old customer Britain, because the Poles can trade coal in exchange, the British cannot. The Poles, taking advantage of Sweden's need, get ballbearings and generators in exchange, to nourish...
...year. This compares to around $2,700 for the American doughfoot. The asker gets an allowance of about 12? a month, which he somewhat bitterly calls his tras parasi (shave money). The asker's boots and uniform look awful. The asker looks particularly bad on furlough. The army, very practically, gives him a sloppy, patched-up uniform for leave, so he won't tear up his fighting clothes. But there is a proud spirit in the Turkish army, and that's what pays off. For every place in the original contingent to Korea, there were six volunteers...
Eight-Hour Shift. From On the Beam, Private Lanza went into Moss Hart's Winged Victory, but the big success of his Army career actually took place during a furlough in Los Angeles. At a party loaded with Hollywood celebrities, he sang from 11 o'clock at night until 7 the next morning. A growing number of influential admirers were fascinated by Lanza and felt a sense of mission to play some role in bringing his voice to the world. Among them was Frank Sinatra, who invited Mario to stay at his house during the furlough. Hedda Hopper...
...newcomers of the 4th Division were quick to get the word from the occupation troops: U.S. soldiers never had it so good. They can go almost anywhere and do almost anything without paying anybody. On a generous furlough schedule, they can run over to such recreation centers as Berchtesgaden and Garmisch in the Bavarian Alps on "temporary duty," stay in some of the world's most luxurious hotels...
...Angel on Furlough. His latest work, Dominations and Powers, a sheaf of reflections on liberty, society, government and man's fate in general, is written with the luminous grace of an angel on furlough and the clinical detachment of a onetime Harvard professor...