Word: pinches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...possible that Lou Little, crafty professor of football at Columbia, may be holding up the works at the H.A.A. offices. Here's why. Like a baseball manager juggling pinch hitter against relief pitcher or vice versa, Bingham may be waiting to see what happens at New Haven, where Little is supposed to have the inside track. "We want to make certain," he said yesterday, "the man we choose for the Harvard job will match the ability or potential ability of whomever Yale picks...
...industry last week gave the Administration its plan to ease the oil shortage. As the pinch is tightened in fuel oil, the industry proposed to 1) cut back gasoline production for 60 days in oil-short areas and turn out more fuel oil, and 2) pool scarce supplies so they can be distributed evenly...
Britannia now at the crossroads stands. Shall she pinch and scrape on a widow...
Charles Chaplin felt the pinch of inflation. A Los Angeles court took notice of the cost-of-living increase, ordered him to pay an extra $25 a week for the support of Carol Ann, his four-year-old daughter by ex-protégée Joan Berry. That meant $100 every week, instead...
What with the dollar pinch, there is no chance of going back, anyway. At least, not for years. Young Harold Wilson, president of the Board of Trade, has warned of another newsprint cut of about 7%. Newspapers can have only 115,812 tons of paper, 31% of prewar, for November through February. The government's allotment to itself: 20,500 tons...