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...decision was made," Broderick stated, "because the scholastic pinch of the accelerated program is making it impossible for news editors to devote enough time to the "Prince" to bring out six full-sized papers a week. Secondly, the war has heavily curtailed advertising for college newspapers. And finally, the board expects that the consequent economy of expenses will permit it to continue publication next summer...
Albany's bright-eyed merchants rubbed their hands. Said one: "Business is so good I have to pinch myself." Customers were plentiful: some 300 R.A.F. cadets and their 65 officers, more than 2,300 Air Corps officers, cadets, enlisted men. Albany's retail trade, $10,000,000 in 1940, jumped about 30% last year...
...headquarters in New York City felt the pinch of shame. This sanctum of super-sleuths had been entered by stealth and pilfered with profit. Almost worse, two detectives of the city police force succeeded where the Federal men had failed, snagged a Negro porter who, they claimed, confessed the theft. The loot: two expensive miniature cameras, a telephoto lens. The accused: Charles Beverly Grayson, a WPA porter who had once worked at the Federal Court House, New York headquarters...
...Answer. It would have been easy for the U.S. and Britain, with the exercise of a pinch of tact, to dispel this serious anger. The Chinese wanted an explanation, but for at least a week they got none, and as they waited their anger mounted by the hour. Veteran correspondents began to experience an unprecedented coolness from the Chinese. In lieu of an explanation all they could go on was results, and the results-in Malaya, in the Philippines, in the Indies-continued bad, however gallant the local actions...
...Government last week was engaged in an undercover struggle with the British Empire to correct the wildest paradox of the war: gold, which nobody really needs, is still being mined at peak rates, while other crucially scarce metals are made even scarcer by the tightening pinch in mine labor, equipment, shipping space...