Word: pinches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...auto industry employs about 500,000 men in its factories. In 1939 it used 80% of all rubber consumed in the U.S., 51% of malleable iron, 34.2% of lead, 18.1% of steel, 14% of grey iron. In the field of essential defense materials where the pinch is greatest, it used 23% of the nation's nickel, 13.7% of copper, 11.4% of tin, 9.7% of aluminum. Now defense needs some of these men and materials...
Smaller and nimbler than the average ballplayer, Rizzuto does everything with a pinch of snuff. He leaps for balls, slides for bases, scoots around like a catnipped rabbit. Last year he led the American Association in assists, putouts, stolen bases. As if that were not enough for a five-foot-fiver, Rizz the Whizz batted .347, an average good enough to lead the league until the season's final fortnight. For these accomplishments Scooter Rizzuto was voted the Most Valuable Player in all 43 minor leagues...
...vital in World War II as airplanes and tanks. A real squeeze in ships was in the making. Unless Washington could find a way to ease the pressure, not only aid to Britain but also the entire U. S. defense program and economic system were about to feel the pinch...
...segment of U. S. industry. OPM continued cheery about the situation, just as Mr. Stettinius had been two months before. The President, discussing the steel outlook, was cheerful to the point of disingenuousness (see p. 77). But Mr. Reeves and others like him knew that the pinch...
...skirts in her right hand, swirling them forward, so the ruffled lining and frilled silk petticoat showed above her ankles and you could see ten inches of her high-heeled buttoned shoes. She held her pocketbook in her left hand but managed to pick up just a pinch of skirt above her knee with the thumb and the forefinger. Holding her skirts that way molded her thighs and showed every beautiful curve of her figure. As she stepped over the curb to the cobblestones, she raised her eyes to the house next door and I could see a slight tremor...