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Most important, the abnormal demand for food, clothing and other consumer goods has been partially filled. The return to normal demand should put a crimp in prices. In any case, the spiral of wages & costs cannot rise indefinitely, as long as production is increasing. The fact that wages usually lag behind rising prices will bring acute hardship to many. But it will put an ultimate ceiling on prices. As purchasing power drops, prices will have to come down also...
Many a U.S. scientist last week grimly contrasted U.S. draft policy with those of Britain, Russia and Germany, which have taken care to keep their scientists where they can be most useful - in the laboratories. The heedless drafting of scientists, said they, would not only put a crimp in the U.S. war effort but place the nation at a serious disadvantage in postwar technology...
...chance are trillions to one. In another test, a woman threw nearly a thousand runs, wound up with 382 hits above par. In still another, a woman performing under the supervision of her husband scored 77 hits above chance in 3,600 tries. The result which put the biggest crimp in Rhine's theory (and which he makes no attempt to explain) is that, though his crapshooters did not try to throw sevens, sevens also came up more often than could be accounted for by chance...
...mouth organ, or harmonica, has been a great comfort to U.S. soldiers in past wars. But priorities in metal have already put a serious crimp in the U.S. harmonica business. This war's comfort is more likely to come from two easily portable and nonmetallic instruments : the "sweet potato," or ocarina, and the tonette...
...political grassfire had been ignited that might spread far beyond the Midwest prairies. If it continued to spread, it could put a serious crimp in the Fourth-Term boom...