Word: pinches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...preceding week's final figure. Booming aircraft, ship and chemical plants in the Southern States pushed power output 18.8% over a year ago; on the Pacific Coast the gain was 17%. The U.S. total was up 11.7%. Steel production held close to capacity, although steelmakers said another scrap pinch was on the way. Carloadings dipped because of sharp declines in ore and lumber shipments...
...many as 2,900 cars-113,000 men, 39 to a car. As of last week, the company figured that its cars in use were occupied 50-50 by civilians and the military. Civilians can still get their lowers if they do a little planning ahead, but when the pinch comes Army & Navy will push civilians right out of the flossiest streamliners. Says the Pullman Co.: "Every car we own is a troop...
...flat, crunching impact that smashed the breath out of 8,500,000 people to whom the automobile had been the most luxurious of all necessities. Uneasily they had seen the blow coming. Now, when it came, some U.S. citizens took it badly. Many others, who would feel the pinch worse, took it in patriotic silence...
Other more important signs of war's pinch in the press...
...Though newsprint (pegged at $50 a ton) is still plentiful, newspapers, take nothing for granted. Warnings have got round that the pinch will likely come in the fall, when new Canadian aluminum and chemical plants may need the electric power formerly used in newsprint manufacture...