Word: pinches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then they made the pinch. Soon other OPA agents swarmed over the lot, arrested five other salesmen, jotted down the license numbers of other black-market autos, knocked the big top off the "circus...
Almost everything went wrong at the Hollywood Bowl. Soprano Dorothy Maynor, the guest star, canceled her engagement because her mother had just died. A substitute chorus was ill-prepared, and a pinch-hitting baritone had to fall back on 01' Man River. So the U.S. debut last week of a talented Negro conductor, Rudolph Dunbar, 39, was a grim experience for everyone but him. Critics praised his crisp, authoritative conducting of the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra...
Early this year the exclusiveness of this combination underwent a significant change. British capital, once exported in large amounts, was kept at home by rigid exchange controls. South Africa felt the pinch. It needed upwards of $300 million to develop the new Orange Free State field (TIME, April 29). Industrial expansion and new mining machinery would soak up millions more. Although sound and prosperous, South Africa did not have this sort of money on hand. U.S. businessmen, still outside the golden circle, saw the chance of a lifetime. Two U.S. firms lost no time taking...
...Peterson, pinch-hitting for Seymour Croft, hit a slow roller to third, but Bill "Neck" Tighe threw the ball away allowing Hubbell to score. Bill Harford singled driving in Hamlen from third, and sending Peterson to third...
Frank Sinatra (Sun. 7 p.m., ABC). Pinch-hitting for Commentator Drew Pearson...