MANPOWER: Fortressmakers

The search for warworkers reached musicomedy proportions last week. In Seattle, where huge Boeing Aircraft is still starved for Flying Fortressmakers after months of ballyhoo, the Army filled the University of Washington Stadium with a real-life show complete with land ing barges, machine guns, land mines, etc.

Among the gold-braid dignitaries was the Army Air Forces' chief, General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold; among the gold-plated stars: Bob Hope. Then next day the soldier-performers began a house-to-house buttonholing, doorbell-ringing campaign to round up more Boeing recruits.

In Chicago, Marshall Field & Co. cooked up a new scheme to get workers in time for the Christmas crush. In a big "Job Trailer," Field's employment office began junketing around Chicago's suburbs, trying to trap no-experience, part-or-fulltime, now-or-later applicants for "425 different Christmas jobs."