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...burly "Cap" Krug was talking about dollar value for goods and services, his blurb was sound. But if he was talking about quality (e.g., of men's shirts, clothing), he was talking through his hat: 1944 would go down in history as a pinch year, no matter how much money civilians spent. Nevertheless, in 1944 U.S. industry had performed prodigies...
...days Simla seethed with secrecy, bubbled Math optimism. Then the conference suddenly stalled. In this political pinch, Lord Wavell was patient. At issue was the question: should the Moslem League have sole right to nominate the Moslem ministers in India's projected new government? Mohamed Ali Jinnah said yes. The delegates of the All-India Congress, which also includes Moslem members, claimed the right to nominate at least one Moslem minister. The factions agreed to adjourn until July 14, so that their working committees could try to work out some compromise...
...invisible Oscar Levant; the brazen love call of the Winter Garden smash Swanee, groaned in all its original agony by blackfaced Al Jolson; Anne Brown's superb soprano raised again in the music of Porgy and Bess; and The Man I Love given an added pinch of pepper by Hazel Scott's post-graduate left hand are only a few of the courses served up in this lavish Gershwin feast. For dessert and liqueur there is a spine-tingling performance of the Rhapsody in Blue, arranged, conducted and played by three members of the original priesthood-Ferde Grof...
...pinch might come again, for a time. Alfred Emanuel Lyon, president of Philip Morris, who had rightly predicted that the shortage would begin to ease a month after V-E day (TIME, March 26), warned that some of the increased supply to civilians might be cut again by further Army demands for the Pacific...
...Rothschild bank in France were said to be $600,000,000. In 1940, the Vichy government confiscated the Rothschild properties in France (after the Baron had emplaned with his family for the U.S., where he has since made his home). But the Baron probably scarcely felt the pinch. He had so much left that the $1,000,000 worth of jewels he had brought with him in a satchel were referred to as a "bagatelle...