Word: pinching
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Congressmen reasoned that all that was needed was a good cleanout; there was no real labor pinch, that where there were local shortages, the voluntary methods advocated by organized labor and the N.A.M. would probably do the trick. Cleveland was launching such a campaign. Even the War Manpower Commission might be able to handle things. WMC had bared its muscle in Allentown, Pa., and had put high-paid brewery workers in munitions plants. Congress relaxed...
...meet the manpower pinch, local draft boards were already calling up deferred farm workers aged 18 to 25 and sending them off to the services. To most farmers it meant that work would be harder, crops inevitably shorter. Some wrote their Congressmen. One of them, North Dakota's hawk-nosed Senator William Langer, collected his farmers' mail, laid some of it before Congress as it considered the May-Bailey bill to draft 4-Fs. Samples, from Dakota farming towns...
...program and ship-repair work have been jeopardized by shortages of manpower. Merchant shipbuilding, with its notoriously high labor turnover, will always be in a critical state while labor is free to go where it pleases. High priority programs on the Army list which are also feeling the labor pinch are small-arms ammunition, tanks, tires, cotton duck, mines, smelters, basic metal fabrications-all industries involving hard and dirty work, mostly at low pay and therefore unpopular with U.S. workers...
...trying to beat back our counterattacks. So far we have made little progress in closing his corridor behind him. He is keeping us busy elsewhere on the front and he doubtless made some shrewd calculations as to the reserves we could bring to bear. And if we fail to pinch off his corridor he may be expected to try to continue his drive to the west...
...long the pinch would last, no one in WPB would guess. The Department of Commerce predicted that war production this year, based on present schedules, will drop below that of 1944. But this will happen only if present schedules remain unchanged. The probabilities are that many of them will be changed-upwards. As the year closed the lesson was plain for all the U.S. to read: in war there is never enough...