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...tell the news, Detroit's Polish-language Dziennik Polski jacked up its press run from 48,600 to 150,000 copies daily, wrapped an 18-page English section around its ten-page Polish editions. A pinch-hitting daily, the Detroit Reporter, was started by newsmen from the strikebound papers with $100 and blessings from the American Newspaper Guild and the Allied Printing Trades Council. At week's end it was printing 100,000 eight-page papers...
...COPPER PINCH will get worse in 1956. Defense needs are so high that the Commerce Department will order producers to set aside another 8,000,000 Ibs. of copper-base products ln first-quarter 1956 for military and AEC orders, bringing the three-month total to 116 million...
From the stainless-steel galley they may expect first-rate meals, prepared beforehand on the ground. If a journey is made on short notice, there is enough canned food stowed in Columbine to put on elaborate meals during a globe-circling flight without an additional pinch of salt...
...midst of the pluses, there were also some minus signs. The growing shortage of credit was beginning to pinch some sections of the economy, as the Administration had expected it would. Housing starts in September dropped below 1954 levels. Next year, said the Veterans Administration, new housing starts will probably fall to 1,100,000, or 200,000 below the '55 level. In Manhattan, the First National City Bank, the city's leading maker of personal loans, hiked interest rates from $3.83 per $100 to $4.25, the first rise since 1937. The Chase National Bank also boosted...
Martin, one of the better place-kickers in the league, stepped back to kick, with Pinch holding. Obviously disconcerted by the charging Crimson line, he kicked wide to the left...