Word: pinching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year, when the ground started sliding away from under industrial feet, the axiom seemed due for testing. The networks began 1938 handsomely, ran up the biggest first quarter of their careers (11.4% above 1937's first quarter). The pinch came in April and some heads began to shake. But the axiom seems to be holding true. With an August boom, the networks began pulling out. Last week, gross revenues of the three major chains -MBS, NBC, CBS,-for the first eight months of 1938 came to $46,971,173, neatly topping...
Thus, although 1938 advertising appropriations may be shrinking, sales of radio time are obviously not feeling the pinch. These are taking as large a slice as they did in 1937, possibly larger. Last year, radio as a whole helped itself to about 17? of the U. S. advertising dollar,* running even with magazines, second to newspapers, which got 59?. Of radio's 17?, network-time sales took about 7?. The remainder went for air time sold by individual stations...
From poverty's pinch I'm further immune...
...there are more ways than one of skinning a Yankee. In July, Furness Line boats adopted the ship-hotel plan themselves, right in Hamilton harbor. This time hotels ashore really felt the pinch. At a session of the Legislature, a new bill was offered. It mentioned no U. S. shipping line, carefully exempted "transit passenger ships" (cruise ships), and, as a loophole in case of protests* placed a power of exemption in the hands of the Bermuda Trade Development Board. Last week in Bermuda's Legislature, over protests from St. George merchants, this bill became a law, subject...
...Crime Seminar was formed for the benefit of rural prosecuting attorneys who know nothing about crime detection beyond what fiction and films have taught them, who are nevertheless often obliged, in a pinch, to turn detective. Thirty-five ambitious, youngish men from 23 States last week buckled down to an intensive program of lectures, demonstrations, discussions. Their teachers were from Northwestern's Law School, from the famed Crime Detection Laboratory recently sold to Chicago by Northwestern...