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...pinch was that the directors had no better idea to offer. They had tried to raise $75,000, and fallen $50,000 short of their goal. So far all they have planned for fall is a series of three pops concerts, with guest conductors like Ferde Grofe and Morton Gould, and three children's concerts. Admitted one director: "We have been guilty of not really analyzing the musical needs of Seattle...
...rediscount rise, its effect would only be psychological. Borrowings by member banks from the Federal Reserve Banks are relatively insignificant, at less than $300 million. With excess reserves of over $1 billion, member banks were not likely to raise the volume by much, nor feel any actual pinch because of the higher charges...
Fred Astaire, who was talked out of a twelve-month retirement to pinch-tap for an injured star in Easter Parade last October, got a return break. When his co-star in The Barkleys of Broadway got sick, Ginger Rogers agreed to fill in, effecting a nostalgic screen reunion after ten years...
...Cheshire grin hanging over the whole scene was Joseph Stalin's. Russia sent a diplomatic mission to Israel (the first to the new state). Some observers feared that, in a pinch, Israeli extremists might ask for Russian aid, invite a chunk of the Red Army into the Middle East. It would probably not come to that. But by week's end, U.S. and British diplomats could not be sure that they had healed the U.S.-British rift...
...union continued its strike against the New York Stock Exchange. Some 700 Exchange workers were still out. But the brokers who pinch-hit for them had no trouble handling its booming business. In one day, 2,140,000 shares were traded, the biggest since April 14, 1947. By week's end the Dow-Jones industrial average stood at 180.38, up 0.90 from the week before and only 0.66 from the year's high...