Word: pinches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Penalties for Europe. Even the black markets felt the pinch. In many cities there was nothing under the counters as well as nothing on top of them. Many an animal sent for slaughter bypassed the major slaughter points at Kansas City, Omaha and Chicago, traveled on to local slaughterers in the East. In New York City, where at one time last week nine out of ten butcher shops were closed, OPA agents estimated that one in five of those doing any business was doing it at over-ceiling prices...
Wheels within Wheels. Tobin's orders set hundreds of trucks rolling again. They averted an immediate food shortage, saved hundreds of thousands of workers from layoffs in building and other industries. But by week's end the pinch applied by the three striking locals began to take effect. Two large food chains (A. & P., Safeway) closed their 730 stores; about 1,000 other such stores were nearly out of supplies...
...played hunches and hustle all season. If the mood came over him, he would take out a batter who already had two strikes on him, put in a pinch hitter Says he: "I just get a feeling." He kept his bullpen in a stew: sometimes, against a single batter, he deliberately used one pitcher for a fast ball, another for a curve. For 15 weeks, with only about four first-rate men (Ed Stanky, Peewee Reese, Dixie Walker and Pete Reiser), Durocher had held the Dodgers at the top of the league. It was a great performance, worthy of making...
...years." No less than eight Government agencies got busy trying to help the overloaded railroads with priorities for materials for new cars, new steps to speed up "turnarounds" of cars, etc. But enough new cars would be long in coming. ODT's Johnson predicted that the pinch would last till spring...
Already Nassaur has 1) set up Courtley production in Hudnut's Toronto plant, 2) swelled his advertising budget 400%, 3) concocted a new goo for the new market-a shampoo which, in a pinch, can also be used as shaving cream or soap...