Word: furloughs
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...decoration was handed out last week at Fort Clark, Tex. It was unofficial and it was for anything but heroism. Inspired by a sergeant's report that soldiers on furlough were talking too much, officers created a paper Maltese cross...
Father's Day. In Hillsboro, Ohio, Harry Woods, who had just heard a broadcast that his son's ship had been sunk, went out for a brooding walk, met his son arriving home on a furlough...
...Lana Turner did not hold next Sunday's church service on the reef. Ten days after their crash landing, a destroyer and three PBY flying boats picked them up. Last week 15 of them were in the Naval Hospital in San Diego. The rest were either on furlough or back on duty...
...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...