Search Details

Word: pinches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...under and leading the league in stolen bases (25). Of the other four Negroes in the majors, the St. Louis Browns' Henry Thompson and Willard Brown had been released after a month's trial; Cleveland's Larry Doby was still hanging on, as a pretty impotent pinch hitter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: No. 5 | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

Detroit was already feeling the pinch of another dispute over the issue of a "no penalty" contract. A two-week strike of 7,000 workers at Detroit's Murray Corp., which supplies body panels, frames and other parts, had already forced Ford to lay off 26,800 workers. The Murray strike had also forced Studebaker (at South Bend, Ind.) to lay off 10,000; the stoppage was backing up into other auto plants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Model in Reverse | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

...unprecedented private showing from four of the best-known houses of French haute couture. Other women have to go to the dressmakers; but the dressmakers came to Evita. Members of her entourage said she was "very tired." She canceled an appointment to visit the Louvre, and Father Benitez pinch-hit for her on the radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: La Belle Blonde | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...some, the cream on the boom was curdling. Eversharp Inc., which turned in a dazzling $1,074,274 last year in its second quarter, was down to $550,575. The rubber industry also had begun to feel the pinch of overproduction (TIME, June 23). Example: General Tire & Rubber Co.'s six months' earnings of $2,650,912 were down from last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARNINGS: Brer Rabbit's Snare | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...soon there were two. Jackie led the league in stolen bases, helped Brooklyn's Dodgers into first place by batting .312. No. 2, the Cleveland Indians' Larry Doby, had not looked as good. In his first two weeks in the majors he had appeared mostly as a pinch-hitter, batted only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Nos. 3 & 4 | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

Previous | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | Next