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...News is not the only Los Angeles paper to feel the pinch. Hearst's morning Examiner has fired five news staffers in two weeks for "economy" and is close to being in the red. Hearst's afternoon Herald-Express, is reportedly in the red. Of all Los Angeles papers only Norman Chandler's fat, old morning Times is coining money. But it too has its troubles. It is pumping its profits into the Mirror, which it owns. Despite the Mirror's fast growth, the tabloid is still losing money. It looked as if there might...
Much of Lace has the air of a sermon. But it achieves a pinch of satire too, through alternating the McNairns' delight, in Dr. Johnson's phrase, over leveling up with their sniffiness about leveling down. And as Alexandra, young (14) Perlita Neilson brightens several scenes with her urbane self-possession. But the play in general has all the velocity of flowing molasses, and a good deal of its stickiness. Tragically short for the two girls, their friendship comes to seem like a lifelong affair to the audience...
Said Defense Mobilization Boss Charles E. Wilson: "The pinch is on." With defense plants finally swinging into mass production, cuts in civilian production will increase fast...
...short, the expected pinch in goods has arrived just when the supply of confusion over how to mesh rearmament with the civilian economy is more abundant than ever...
Kansas City's Employers Reinsurance Co. last week had some gloomy news for its stockholders. In the first six months of 1951 the company lost $2,687,519. Main reason: skyrocketing claims for auto accidents. All over the U.S., casualty insurance companies are feeling the same pinch. In New York, where the bulk of nationwide auto liability insurance is written, casualty insurance companies went $120 million into the red on auto policies between 1946 and 1950. Their deficits last year totaled $11 million, in 1951's first half were still growing...