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CASTOR-OIL SHORTAGE is coming. World demand for next four years will be 565 million Ibs., supply 540 million Ibs., says Department of Commerce. Pinch will hurt U.S. industries using castor oil, e.g., makers of grease, drugs, soap, lubricants for jet planes, plastics, nylon bristle...
...cart will fall apart and the rider will drop into an Ivy model suit. Fetishism such as this is like an old school ring; when it begins to pinch, you leave it at home in your dresser drawer
Persimmony, parsimonious Missouri Democrat Clarence Cannon was at his pinch-mouthed, pinch-pursed best. "I have never known of a previous instance," snapped House Appropriations Committee Chairman Cannon, "in which a Government employee came up to the Capitol and issued an ultimatum to the House and Senate." Against that ultimatum, the "United States Congress, the greatest legislative body in the world, that stood up to Hitler, that stood up to Mussolini, that stood up to Stalin, stampeded like a regiment dissolving at Waterloo-before a Postmaster General...
...missiles into the line in place of conventional equipment. In 1954 about 10% of Air Force procurement funds went for missiles; by 1960 the figure will be up to 50%. And the face of U.S. industry is changing as airframe manufacturers slow to develop missile lines are feeling the pinch, while the 17 contractors and 200 subcontractors on the ICBM program are booming to the point where, for example, one twelve-year-old newcomer named Aerojet-General has piled up a backlog of $400 million...
...breakfast-table chatter with some 15,000 headliners on TV and radio, Tex and Jinx McCrary have learned the ABCs of interviewing. In their latest inquisition, a five-a-week daytime TV show called Close-Up, they have overextended themselves, and the result is a sort of compost: a pinch of Ralph Edwards' This Is Your Life and a watered-down heap of Mike Wallace's Night Beat (which McCrary says is "a carbon copy of one of my old shows"). Last week the McCrarys snagged a performer who had turned Wallace down cold: Negro Singer Eartha Kitt...