Word: pinches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shortage began to pinch the Midwest last week. The major companies announced that they would have to ration dealers. Standard Oil Co. (Indiana) was first; in twelve central states it reduced gasoline deliveries 15%. Shell Oil, Phillips Petroleum and Socony-Vacuum quickly followed...
...rest of the summer, at least, the Midwest will have no more gasoline than in 1946-and consumption is up about 15%. The Midwest felt the pinch first because the railroads, swamped by the bumper wheat crop, could not haul enough tank cars. The East Coast, supplied by tanker, is luckier...
...Cape Harting, with crated P-40s on her deck and a bellyfull of barreled aviation fuel, snaked through the Sandy Hook minefields one May morning. Rusty or not, she was good for 15 knots in a pinch, and sailed without convoy. Her chief engineer, an oldtime wrench-pusher named Seligman, knew just enough about high-pressure steam turbines to keep his nose out of the engine room. The men who ran the show down there were his assistants-notably Ed Greenewater, the first assistant, a sloppy, red-faced kid with an intuitive, possessive feel for engines, and Paul Jessup...
...Crimson, righthander Jack Wallace lasted eight innings and gave up all the runs, and all of the Elis '13 bits. He was lifted for a pinch hitter in the Varsity's two-run eighth inning. Left-hander Ira Godin came on in the ninth and set the Elis down in order...
...more Crimson runs pattered across the plate int he eighth when Mariaschin walked, took third on Brendan Reilly's pinch double, and scored in front of Walt Adler, who ran for Reilly, on Yale's first-sacker George' Bush's mishandling of Caulfield's pinch...