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...Credit Crimp. Even without conversion, tightening steel supplies had already cut the U.S. auto industry down from its peak production (last week it turned out 181,156 units v. 184,791 the week before). This came in the face of the biggest rush for cars in five years; used-car dealers were once again displaying new "used" autos at $500 and more above list prices. "Scare buying" of all consumer goods kept spreading; U.S. department-store sales jumped 21% in a week. In New Bedford, Mass., a telephone operator who caught the fever drew out her savings...
...Rumors that excise taxes would soon be pared put a last-minute crimp in Christmas sales of taxed luxury goods. Moaned one Detroit jeweler: "I wish they'd either repeal that tax or stop talking about...
Cars had flowed smoothly until mobs of pedestrians threw a crimp into the traffic...
...feet of film still streaming weekly out of five major newsreel companies (Fox-Movietone, Paramount, Warner Pathe, Universal, M-G-M News-of-the-Day) was being staled in television areas by TV's faster, if still less complete, news coverage in pictures. Peacetime had put a big crimp in the popularity won by the war's combat films. But when such ordinarily surefire films as last year's Louis-Walcott fight and Army-Navy game failed to draw heavily, the realists knew the reason...
Last November's Yale game did more than place a clammy hand on the end of the football season. It also put a decided crimp in the Phillips Brooks House blood drive, when an alarmingly high percentage of would-be donors were regretfully turned away from the operating table. Too much alcohol in their veins, the doctors said; and the campaign fell short of its goal. Today another drive begins, and with the perils of a Big Weekend safely past, PBH officers dare to hope that the 200-pint quota will...