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Like a cellar-sitting baseball club looking for a pitcher and a catcher, Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera last week was in the market for an Isolde and a Brünnhilde. The Met needed a top-notch heavyweight soprano to sing these Wagnerian roles, pinch-hitting for Kirsten Flagstad, now immured in her native Norway until the war ends (TIME, June...
Three other reasons for the pinch: 1) British underestimates of their own needs, now running two or three times earlier estimates; 2) growing Chinese requirements; 3) increased use by U.S. air forces...
...pinch caught the U.S. with virtually no munitions industry except a few Army arsenals. ("We were proud of our lack of militarism," said Bob Patterson.) As of last week the Army Ordnance Department had built or under way 21 plants for powder, TNT, etc., was already getting some production...
...soldiers: combat engineers fight with guns as well as shovels, often lead attacking troops into battle when enemy fortifications, tank-traps, etc. have to be demolished. Lieut. Colonel Wood's use of simulated tanks was something extra, just to show what Negro engineers could do in a pinch...
...every bituminous coal mine in the country for 29 days in 'the April coal strike, threatening a major industrial paralysis. While the squabble went on over that 3? a ton, U.S. carloadings were cut nearly 9%. In the last week of the strike, when steelmen were feeling the pinch, steel production was cut 74,500 badly needed tons...