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...Pinch. Thus far, U.S. ground troops in combat have not felt the pinch because of this 25% reduction in the proposed program. But troops in training have, are now at best only 50% equipped. And prospects for improvement are dim under WPB's rules and industry's performance. Battle is eating up ground force weapons and the draft is pouring in millions more men who must be equipped. But production of ground-force weapons rose only 3% in February, 8% in March, and an estimated 5% in April...
...Common Man. "America's No. 1 Curmudgeon, or Sour Puss" was born (1874) in Pennsylvania, the second of seven children. "I was raised to dust and sweep and wash dishes and knead dough and baste the beef and turn (and burn) the toast and flip flapjacks. ... I was pinch-hit nursemaid, wood chopper, fire builder and tender, chicken executioner-more useful than ornamental...
...picture ends with Ray Milland marrying Paulette Goddard, or at least, that would be the right thing for them to do. How they get together in the first place is the picture. She (Goddard) is pinch-hitting for a fortune-teller who is taking the day off. He (Milland) happens to run into her, and the pseudo-psychic predicts they will come together. Milland doesn't know Paulette is the fortune-teller, however, and she plays a double role: as the fortune-teller and as a gay young immigrant from Texas. Naturally, there's a third woman, a client...
When the Japanese took Singapore and the Dutch East Indies they captured 90% of the world's supply of crude rubber. Americans felt the pinch in tire and gasoline rationing; the U.S. Army needed all the rubber that could be had and more besides, which was to be produced in many new synthetic-rubber plants. Malaya as a rubber source was written...
...across the Russian border, Collier's Correspondent Alice-Leone Moats was waiting for them, repartee in hand. Asked, at a dinner in Moscow's Italian Embassy, if she knew how Italian officers drank toasts, "Moatsie" snapped: " 'No. All I know about Italian officers is that they pinch girls' behinds.'. . . The others broke into a guffaw...