Word: clutching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What about the role of an educational leader in the intercollegiate football wars? "Disenchantment" provokes only a shrug from Sproul ("these bad season . . .") for Cal jumped from a 7 out of 9 losing streak last season to an 8 game clutch of victories this fall. "I've seen these crises over and over," he smiles. "They'll talk about subsidization. A student body ought to recognize that there's no real glory in a team that's been bought and paid for. It doesn't mean a thing unless it grows out of the actual life of the institution...
Automatic Pickup. General Motors' Buick division, which plans to make only minor body changes in its 1948 model due in January, still plans a major mechanical revolution. The '48 Buick Roadmaster, said the division, will have no clutch, clutch pedal, or customary gear shift. For normal driving, the motorist will merely have to push a button; the accelerator will do the rest. There is also a reverse gear and "emergency low" for snow and mud. With rising production and a backlog of 520,000 unfilled orders, Buick hopes next year to pass Plymouth, into third place behind Chevrolet...
...space of four days, it demanded dissolution of alleged price-fixing agreements and competitive restraints among 1) eight major rubber companies and their Rubber Manufacturers Association; 2) twenty manufacturers of brake linings and clutch facings and their Brake Lining Manufacturers Association; 3) the Eastman Kodak Co. and Technicolor Inc., charged with monopolizing the processing of color film. This week, it impaneled a federal grand jury in Washington to investigate alleged price-fixing by oil companies...
...program which must be considered administration-inspired, even with a non-partisan Secretary of State at the helm. The proposals will only too likely involve partisan politics, an inescapable danger with 1948 elections already tugging at the parties. Only a minor miracle could pull the plan from the clutch of politicians zeus fully reaching for campaign fodder...
...volume was lush with enticing descriptions of all the standard prewar meccas and war had added a clutch of new see-worthy sights to attract the tourist eye and dollar. In Normandy, as of yore, there were "hotels to suit all means and tastes," and now there was also "a comfortable service of motor coaches making daily trips to the landing beaches and battlefields." For those who chose to rough it at Omaha Beach, some abandoned landing barges would make convenient bathhouses...