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Small businessmen, who find it hard to raise stock market capital, also complain that they are being hit hardest by the credit pinch. Bankers dispute this, point out that business loans of under $100,000 are running 14% ahead of last year. The Small Business Administration in the first six months of 1956 approved more than $165 million in loans to small businessmen, twice the volume for first-half...
...they had eyes. He needed no more than 97 pitches (71 of which were in the strike zone) to dispose of the absolute minimum of 27 Dodger hitters, and not a single Dodger got to first base. While the crowd watched tensely, the Dodgers put up their 27th batter. Pinch Hitter Dale Mitchell. He took a ball, then a called strike, missed a curve for strike two. He fouled another off and settled grimly in the batter's box. Larsen pitched. Mitchell checked his swing, watched the third strike whiz by. The crowd let out its breath and roared...
...Pinch. In Charleston, W. Va., hiding under a hotel bed to trap two men and a woman on liquor and prostitution charges, Vice Detective George Robertson got wedged under the springs, held out his badge to make the arrest, got unwedged when the bed was lifted...
...Yankee total to six. By the eighth inning Sturdivant was obviously weary. Between pitches he fidgeted like a man with a mouse down his back. In the ninth, with one Brooklyn run scored and the bases still full of Dodgers, even Casey got the jumps. But Sturdivant struck out Pinch-Hitter Randy Jackson, got Junior Gilliam on an easy fly for the last out and a 6-2 victory...
...NICKEL PINCH will be eased by vast International Nickel Co. of Canada, Ltd. expansion program. After spending $8,000,000 on exploration, world's biggest nickel producer (six-month sales: $225 million) will shell out $150 million to bring huge new nickel source at Moak Lake, Man. into production. At full production, Moak Lake will probably be world's second biggest nickel center, topped only by INCO's own Sudbury, Ont. operation...