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...apparent reasons: ¶ Tire workers had gone to work on a seven-day instead of a six-day-week (as part of a War Department-sponsored, four-month drive which began Jan. 1). ¶ The Germans' December breakthrough had revitalized complacent workers. ¶ The emergency furlough of 600 soldiers to fill in gaps in the tire plants over a month ago seemed to have touched civilian workers' pride. The presence of uniforms made them work harder and faster than ever before. (Another 900 soldiers were proving equally successful production boosters in other rubber plants...
...make matters more difficult, the soldiers worked with unabashed fervor to make good (and possibly win furlough extensions), and to make as much as $100 a week, with overtime. They worked as if they had never heard of anything but a seven-day week...
Like Sergeant Harry Myrand of Brooklyn, N.Y., most had been in the lines, under fire, when they heard the incredible news: picked men of the First, Third, Seventh and Ninth U.S. Armies-decorated veterans all-were going home on 30-day furlough...
...already returning from the war, badly needs saying to American civilians. The picture's crucial weakness: it confronts its fumbling, humiliated, pitiful soldier Zack (Joseph Cotten) with a girl (Ginger Rogers) who, instead of being reasonably average, is also a decidedly special case. Zack is on Christmas furlough from an Army psychiatric hospital; Mary is on Christmas furlough from a penitentiary...
...Parents' Magazine, also concerned about fatherhood in the armed forces, last month put out a special overseas "pony supplement." Sample topic: "Make the Most of Your Furlough...