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...Pinch. Whatever numbers the armed services take, the loss will come at the very time when the G.I. Bill has all but run out,* and the slim years of the depression babies have already begun. Many campuses are already feeling the pinch: Stanford University reported a drop in enrollments from 9,192 in 1948 to 7,700 last fall; the University of Denver was down from 12,000 to 9,000; little Elmhurst (111.) College has gone from 750 in 1950 to 650 last fall, to 600 at the beginning of the spring term...
Motorists felt the first pinch of the rubber shortage last week. The National Production Authority ordered that all new automobiles be delivered without a spare tire...
...disappointment to another Kentucky politico. The day of Chapman's death, Baseball Commissioner A. B. ("Happy") Chandler, scheduled to lose his job next year, put in a hurry-up call to the governor's office. The-governor said he was sorry but he had already picked his pinch-hitter...
...quip pointed up the fact that after eight months of war in Korea, the civilian shortages predicted by Washington's hair-shirt cult had not materialized. The booming auto industry, which three months ago dropped thousands of workers because of a materials pinch, had now rehired most of them. Last week the automakers turned out 168,000 units, 40% above the 1950 period when Chrysler was closed by a strike. Building was nearly 25% above the February 1950 figure. And in January business inventories jumped $2 billion to $63 billion despite peak retail sales...
Since the pinch will not hit everyone alike, most publishers can make up the shortage by cutting down on waste (e.g., printing too large a press run), which now takes some 5% of newsprint. Others will have to scramble in the tight spot market, where prices are already up to $200 a ton, v. $106 on long-term contracts. Contract prices themselves may be boosted...