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...tons a year. Her shipyards could replace only 1,000,000 in steel hulls. Her emergency program for wooden ships, 100 to 300 tons, was a flop; they were good only for Inland Sea and intercoastal traffic. Short of oil, minerals, food, even lumber, the Empire was in a pinch...
...doing so, the Army shifted some aircraft contracts from Southern California to Dallas to relieve the tight California manpower area (see Manpower), and eased the Akron rubber pinch (see BUSINESS) by transferring aircraft-parts contracts to Evansville, Ind. But this did not stop what United Automobile Workers' (C.I.O.) R. J. Thomas last week called "cutback jitters...
...accent is more Boston than any thing else (he was born in Kharkov, Russia, in 1899, the son of a successful novelist and playwright-grew tip in St. Petersburg-finished school there just before the revolution). He is low-voiced, restrained-and he wears rimless pinch-nose glasses (he served for five months as a machine gunner in the Ukrainian Army, then signed as seaman on a munitions ship bound for America-reached New York unable to speak English and with only 14? in Turkish money in his pocket. For months he worked as an engraver's assistant...
Going into the last half of the ninth trailing by five runs, the Crimson men promptly loaded the bases. Hugo Francke, pinch-hitting for Sid Greeley, then struck out. Finally two runs were scored, but they were not enough to pull the game out of the fire...
There are a lot of them now, doing a lot of work, having a lot of fun and accomplishing something real and sure towards early victory, but more are needed and Cambridge women are getting their chance to show that they can come through in a pinch by enlisting...