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...very helpful," Raymond F. Howes of the Council said, "but this plan encourages student extravagance, costs the government a great deal, and affords most of the relief to upper income bracket parents who don't need it while doing little or nothing for the people who really feel the pinch...
...liver-about $25 worth a month." If the advance is not enough, there is the $2-limit poker session that Algren convenes twice a week in the basement of a North Michigan Avenue mansion. Algren figures that he has made $1,000 at poker this year-enough, in a pinch, to keep the novel going...
...tickled more risibilities than Charlie Chaplin, he does not really have much sense of humor. Walt Disney is a genuine hand-hewn American original with the social adze-marks sticking out all over; he is a garage-type inventor with a wild guess in his eye and a hard pinch on his penny, a grassroots genius in the native tradition of Thomas A. Edison and Henry Ford...
...years went on, and Walt prospered, The Mouse got some of the benefits. In 1931 he was given his first pair of shoes. By 1935 he was fatter and sleeker, and his eyes had grown large and almost soulful. In 1938 he felt the pinch of rising costs: he lost his tail, thereby saving the studio a sizable sum of money on each cartoon. Next year, after Snow White, he got the tail back, only to lose it again during Walt's dark years in the '40s. But in 1952 Walt made up for everything by giving Mickey...
...much the result of what the Administration did as the way it talked about it. It floated its new long-term bonds in such a spate of talk about a return to hard-money policies, tighter credit and balancing the national budget that businessmen worried about a real money pinch. Later, when the Treasury eased rates, it failed to publicize the move properly. As a result, the worries about tightening credit persisted; businessmen cut down on inventories and buying long after the squeeze was over...