Word: pinching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House; and if you want people to eat in the House, you can scarcely want less than ten meals per person per week; one a day and three besides or two a day Monday through Friday. As for getting the beast to drink, he may holler if you pinch him in the pocketbook, but where else will you pinch him? You could put it up to University 4, a shocking alternative but the only...
With copper last week being sold by custom smelters at 7⅜? a pound, another all-time low, the already painful pinch upon U. S. producers became sharper than ever. Therefore last week Quincy Mining Co. shut down its mines for five weeks and Magma Copper Co. shut down for three months. Adding United Verde and United Verde Extension, both of which shut down several weeks ago, this made four copper companies out of business. In 1929, the four supplied 12% of total U. S. production. Should copper fail to rise in the near future, other of the lesser companies...
...Sabin's convention. When it was over she publicly challenged Mrs. Sabin to debate Prohibition with her. She said: "No one could see your meetings and not be im pressed with the number of women of wealth present. May we ask you how many of these have felt the pinch of poverty that goes with liquor or who will be the victims if the saloon, or any other place where liquor is openly dispensed, comes back? Are we not right in saying that it is not the protected women of wealth but the women who toil who will suffer...
Thousands of devotees, black and white, went to Mother Catherine for "cures." Her apostles searched them at the wooden gate for weapons. The unarmed entered, had a pinch of salt dropped in a palm, which they lapped up and made a wish for Mother Catherine's help. "Saints" lined up the applicants. The file approached the altar where stood stout Mother Catherine, adorned by a white headdress and a starched apron with the word MOTHER embroidered in red across its bib. On a side table was a huge brown bottle of warm castor oil, which she had blessed...
...accomplished nothing, had net assets of 87?. He there upon set up a tent, hired a band on credit, held services. Three services brought him $3,500. He then made the proud boast: "The day will come when I will own every foot, every inch, and every pinch of the 6,500-acre site of the City of Zion and then I will float the flag of Zion over every building...