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...production scheduled for the last half of 1951, the auto industry will hit the second biggest output in history for the full year. Despite retail price wars, retailers' shelves were still bulging with 29% more goods than last year. Businessmen who had thought that rising arms production would pinch the U.S. consumer by December now thought the pinch might not come for a year-if then...
With Weinberg gone, Wilson will have to rely on new and less experienced aides. But he can be sure that in a pinch, he can always call on his friend; Weinberg will be no farther away than the telephone...
...Flesh. In Smithville, Ohio, Long's Market felt the pinch, advertised for "a good home for a male coach dog; very fond of sirloin steaks...
...with one away in the ninth, Kev Reilly singled to right and was forced at second by pinch-hitter Rafe Webb. Walt Greeley pinch hit and walked, and John Donelan, batting for pitcher Bob Ward, singled Webb in. Then Ed Foynes scored Greeley and Donelan with the third hit of the inning and came around himself on an error by Winnich. HARVARD ab r h po a e Foynes, cf 5 1 2 2 0 0 Robinson, rf 4 0 0 1 1 0 White, ss, c 5 0 1 5 8 0 Akillian...
STATE OF BUSINESS Bad News In Washington last week, 300 manufacturers of autos, refrigerators and a long list of other civilian goods gathered to find out how much the arms program will pinch them in the rest of the year. For the third quarter, the news was bad; it would probably be worse later on. In a series of new control edicts, the National Production Authority's Boss Manly Fleischmann ordered civilian-goods makers to: ¶Cut their third quarter use of steel, now limited to 80% of the average for the six months preceding Korea...