Word: pinches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sophomore Brooks Heath, the squad's official utility outfielder, has been appointed to start in left. To date the Newton High graduate has been doing little more than pinch hit, and has a double for two recorded times...
...answer to a vast global problem of logistics that had consistently kept the superior surface force on the defense. Germany had partly brought the change about by starting to build her surface fleet during the starvation days of the Weimar Republic, and keeping up the program even when the pinch of war put the emphasis on U-boats...
...Last year Hudson, Nash, Packard and Studebaker cleared $12,900,000, highest since 1936 and 450% more than the year before (against a 4% profit increase for General Motors and Chrysler). And many of the independents may do 50 to 200% better this year than last. Long accustomed to pinch-dollar tactics, they are not frittering away this new-found cash. Some of it may be handed to long-starved stockholders, but the biggest part will be used in ways that will make them stronger companies when peace returns...
...Colonel Merrow E. Sorley, onetime West Point teacher of engineering and military history. Lessons will be pounded home by instructors from the Corps of Engineers. Ultimate aim: to make the task of demolition, heretofore an art sacred to the engineers, a job that any soldier can do in a pinch, if he has the explosives and a bit of arson in his system...
...record seven million tons of ore was melted in January. February consumption was 12% above last year. By the end of the year the rate will be up to eight and a half million, and a stock will have to be laid in for winter. The pinch is so sharp that it may be necessary to ship most of the return-voyage coal by rail, rushing the boats back empty. Coal takes only three to five hours to load, but eight to twelve hours to unload...