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...Pinch-hitting for Lieut. Commander Walter Winchell, eccentric Bridge Systematizer Ely Culbertson devoted most of a column to explaining how the war should be fought and how it will go, disclosed "the real reason why I have been out of circulation these last three years." The reason: he has been "building a concrete and comprehensive system-a Treaty of Peace-for the coming world settlement." Without describing the system, the bridge player characterized.it as "a blueprint that works, not dreams," declared that it had been endorsed by "hundreds of professors, statesmen and specialists...
...meet the pinch as best they can, as rapidly as possible they teach women the printing trade (Kansas State Teachers College, in cooperation with Kansas publishers, is organizing an eight-week course); they raid high schools and colleges. In many instances, two or more papers have consolidated their mechanical departments. More syndicated features are used...
...these moves are only pinch-hitting measures. They can be knocked into a cocked hat by the first New England blizzard that slows rail traffic. The nub of the trouble is that New England is still using daily 100,000 bbl. of oil more than it is receiving. Because it thought it would get more oil, only 20% of New England industry has converted to coal and still less conversion has been done by home owners. Two buildings that could have been converted are the State House and City Hall in Boston. Annual savings: 1.5 million gal. of fuel...
Tire companies look a bit askance at the tubeless idea. They admit that it will work in a pinch, but they warn against its hazards in the event of a blowout-they say it would give the car a far worse wrench than usual...
...Africa lost to the Axis one prong of the pincers (the other is in Russia) with which the Axis was preparing to pinch off the whole Middle East will have been destroyed...