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Stunned, the new board of directors met hastily. New President Preston Lockwood, who had been upped from corporation secretary, indignantly denied that Brewster would go out of business, but admitted that "substantial layoffs will be in evitable." This meant that some 10,000 workers in Brewster's Long Island plants will probably be laid off this week. These plants already have enough parts backlogged to complete the reduced contract. The 2,500 in the final assembly plant at Johnsville will probably face a similar layoff within a month...
...Miracle" is Preston Sturges's sixth effort, and betters all of them except the first, "The Great McGinty" from which it borrows two characters. The show is always moderately funny, maintains a good entertainment level, and holds the interest...
...Howard Hughes will furnish most, Preston Sturges some, of the capital...
...cannot devote any time whatsoever to the motion picture business until the war is over. ... I did not know of anyone whom I was willing to trust to carry on this business without any attention on my part. Then the opportunity presented itself to make an association with Preston Sturges, whose work I have always admired for many years, but who has always been unavailable because of his contract with Paramount [which recently expired]. Here is one man in whom I have complete confidence. I am happy to turn over to him the full control and direction...
...Said Preston Sturges: "I am merely going to keep on making movies just the way I've always done...