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...most cases, civilian and defense production has enough steel to carry on for 20 to 35 days, although the pinch might come sooner for some manufacturers (e.g., jet engine plants), who need special high-alloy steel. On the television-equipped picket lines, the workers have not yet asked for help from union welfare funds, but the steelworkers' treasury and those of other big C.I.O. unions are ready to help in hardship cases.* Phil Murray and his lieutenants vowed that they would "never surrender." Said Murray: "There just isn't any group or citizen in this country big enough...
...lanky Eli righthander had retired seven straight going into the seventh, and his two-run lead seemed secure. But Akillian led off the stretch frames with a lefty frights to deep left. When pinch. hitted Ail Switzer followed with a single to counter, Akillian came in and Beresford went...
...laboratory at the University of Chicago, a pinch of powdered carbon was placed in a radiation counter. Chemistry Professor Willard F. Libby carefully measured its faint radioactivity,* made his calculation and gave his verdict: the charred oak from which the carbon came was 3,800 years old-give or take about 275 years...
...Pinch. In Cincinnati, Mrs. Roger A. Phillips got a divorce after telling the judge that "the only thing my husband bought for me in all our married life was a pair of shoes-and they hurt...
Centerfielder Bob Smith started the Crimson's rally with a single. Ray Mae-saka followed with another one-baser, and when Chuck Wade pinch-hit another single, the visitors had the bases loaded...