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Minor Inconvenience. In New York City, the strikebound 10% were advised to use police boxes in a pinch. In Chicago, big businesses with perishable out-of-town orders put most long distance calls in the emergency (fire, flood, death) or urgent business category, got cut off occasionally when they started a supposedly desperate call with a windy "How's the weather out there?" Chicago suburbanites had their crises too. James Ruzek, who lives in dialless Berwyn, works in a struck plant in dialless Cicero, and has a worrying wife, sent his pet carrier pigeon flying home daily with...
...better view. At the cathedral's entrance, the limousines disgorged the auto city's great. From a maroon Lincoln limousine, Clara Bryant Ford stepped out, leaning on the arm of her grandson, Henry. Inside St. Paul's, in a sealed casket, lay the pinch-faced, fragile remains of her husband...
...first place. What knocked the price down was 1) a boost in margins and 2) a change in the Government's delivery requirements. It agreed to accept many deliveries wherever the wheat is, rather than at Kansas City, as called for in contracts. This eased the pinch in wheat markets which were being drained of spot wheat for deliveries...
...Australia's Labor Parliament approved an outright gift of 25,000,000 Australian pounds ($80,250,000) to the United Kingdom. Next day small sister New Zealand announced a gift of 12,500,000 New Zealand pounds.* Both girls felt they ought to help Mother in her financial pinch; and besides, they owed a lot to her for help...
...high jinks staged by commodity markets last week, the main ring was in Chicago. There, in the most hectic trading in the wheat pit in over five years, the price of spot wheat jumped to $2.50, highest since 1920. This put such a pinch on traders in March futures, i.e., wheat to be delivered before the end of the month, that futures jumped even higher, hit $2.62. Up with them they carried all the other grains...