Word: pinches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hopes to meet all needs by simply stepping up fuel oil production, hopes to keep gasoline rationing at the present level. If this fails, then PAW may have to change refining procedures, i.e., make fuel oil & kerosene at the expense of civilian gas, once more pinch the motorist...
With that war's unprecedented mobilization of national resources to offset blockade, governments learned new economic tricks and developed new appetites for control "in the national interest." Under the pinch of depression in the 1930s. governments manipulated their currencies to shape foreign trade. Counter-manipulation led to government control of imports & exports, and then to still more currency manipulation...
...burly "Cap" Krug was talking about dollar value for goods and services, his blurb was sound. But if he was talking about quality (e.g., of men's shirts, clothing), he was talking through his hat: 1944 would go down in history as a pinch year, no matter how much money civilians spent. Nevertheless, in 1944 U.S. industry had performed prodigies...
...days Simla seethed with secrecy, bubbled Math optimism. Then the conference suddenly stalled. In this political pinch, Lord Wavell was patient. At issue was the question: should the Moslem League have sole right to nominate the Moslem ministers in India's projected new government? Mohamed Ali Jinnah said yes. The delegates of the All-India Congress, which also includes Moslem members, claimed the right to nominate at least one Moslem minister. The factions agreed to adjourn until July 14, so that their working committees could try to work out some compromise...
...invisible Oscar Levant; the brazen love call of the Winter Garden smash Swanee, groaned in all its original agony by blackfaced Al Jolson; Anne Brown's superb soprano raised again in the music of Porgy and Bess; and The Man I Love given an added pinch of pepper by Hazel Scott's post-graduate left hand are only a few of the courses served up in this lavish Gershwin feast. For dessert and liqueur there is a spine-tingling performance of the Rhapsody in Blue, arranged, conducted and played by three members of the original priesthood-Ferde Grof...