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...Pinch. The main goal was to pull off farms and out of elevators about one-third of the nation's storage of 375,000,000 bushels of wheat and to get it on the way to famine-threatened areas in the next three months. Would these measures at last bring out the wheat and other grains? The next two weeks might supply the answer. Grain men generally believed that farmers would release supplies slowly, but the 30? incentive would bring out an increasing supply...
This week U.S. housewives would begin to feel the pinch. A cut in bread deliveries was the bakers' first step. Until bakers could set their ovens and machines to produce lighter loaves, until they could shift more flour from pastries and other products, there would probably be a bread shortage in many communities. But all these measures were by hindsight. They would add no kernels to the grain the U.S. had promised to deliver to the famine lands. At best, they would do no more than avert a failure to meet U.S. commitments...
...Hornsby on Pasquel: "He agreed to pay me extra for serving as a pinch hitter, but I never collected that. . . . I left a little ahead of the three months I was scheduled to handle the team, so I figured things were even." Advice to Mexico-jumping ballplayers: "Get all the money deposited in a bank on this side of the border. . . . They have funny standards down there...
When Willie Shakespeare, rumoredly at the behest of good Queen Bess, goes all out for "slap me on the ischium, and pinch me on the mammae," the result is good fun, but who said clean. When the stock company undertakes to spice it up a bit, where the heck was Jim Curley's sister...
...that the 18½ pattern set in steel will not be the pattern for all. So will some ceiling prices rise-but as little as possible. For the most part, the wage increases will be squeezed out of profits, which Chet Bowles believes are big enough to stand the pinch...