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...ninth inning, with the knowledge of his impending feat running through the crowd of 64,519 like an electric current, Larsen got Carl Furillo on a fly, Roy Campanella on a grounder, and ended with a flourish by striking out pinch hitter Dale Mitchell...
STEEL SHORTAGE, beginning to pinch just now, will continue through year's end, the worst since post-strike 1952. Lacking plates and structural shapes, some railroad car and agricultural equipment builders are resorting to production cutbacks, layoffs. Steel strike cost 11 million tons of steel, plus extensive damage to U.S. mills...
...like cocktail dresses. But wherever gores and gussets were discussed by experts, Christian Dior's name led all the rest. Mindful of the dismal failure of 1954's sad-sack flat look, Dior had turned out a collection of slinky new gowns that puff up the bosom, pinch down the rump, swoop low around the neckline. Exulted the New York Herald Tribune's Eugenia Sheppard: "Dior has designed a collection for the men this time. The kept lady look. The undressed look...
...steel strike lagged into its third week (see below), the pinch was starting to hurt retailers in some steelmaking areas, though many were trying to bolster sales with generous credit terms (see cut). The Federal Reserve Board reported that department-store sales for the week were down 1% in the Chicago area, down 6% in Pittsburgh. But it will still be some time before sales are badly hurt. One of the most notable things of 1956 so far is the way Detroit merchants keep on selling in the face of heavy auto layoffs totaling 280,000 Michigan workers. While sales...
...Pinches & Prices. Why all the optimism? Part of it was the absence of any real bitterness in the steel strike, even though other industries also started to feel the pinch. The Pennsylvania Railroad, which gets 30% of its revenues from the steel industry, imposed a 10% pay cut on all nonunion employees. Some 90,000 other workers in rail, truck and water transportation industries were laid off. To keep defense plants running, the Government clamped a freeze on certain steel stocks, ordered warehouses to ship them only to defense contractors. Yet it would still be several weeks before any real...