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...industry last week gave the Administration its plan to ease the oil shortage. As the pinch is tightened in fuel oil, the industry proposed to 1) cut back gasoline production for 60 days in oil-short areas and turn out more fuel oil, and 2) pool scarce supplies so they can be distributed evenly...
Charles Chaplin felt the pinch of inflation. A Los Angeles court took notice of the cost-of-living increase, ordered him to pay an extra $25 a week for the support of Carol Ann, his four-year-old daughter by ex-protégée Joan Berry. That meant $100 every week, instead...
What with the dollar pinch, there is no chance of going back, anyway. At least, not for years. Young Harold Wilson, president of the Board of Trade, has warned of another newsprint cut of about 7%. Newspapers can have only 115,812 tons of paper, 31% of prewar, for November through February. The government's allotment to itself: 20,500 tons...
With some pain, the Duke remembered a childhood nurse who took him downstairs at teatime to see his parents, the future George V and Mary. "Before taking me into the drawing room, this dreadful 'Nanny' would pinch and twist my arm-why, no one knew, unless it was to demonstrate, according to some perverse reasoning, that her power over me was greater than theirs." Eventually the cruel Nanny was caught at it, and fired...
...climate nor the mouths of our horses are particularly well adapted to the making of westerns, but there is no reason why we should not have a shot at it. As for tremendously bad films about the lives of celebrated musicians, we can turn them out at a pinch, and it may even prove possible to show the reconquest of Burma without enlisting the services of Mr. Errol Flynn...