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...vital in World War II as airplanes and tanks. A real squeeze in ships was in the making. Unless Washington could find a way to ease the pressure, not only aid to Britain but also the entire U. S. defense program and economic system were about to feel the pinch...
...segment of U. S. industry. OPM continued cheery about the situation, just as Mr. Stettinius had been two months before. The President, discussing the steel outlook, was cheerful to the point of disingenuousness (see p. 77). But Mr. Reeves and others like him knew that the pinch...
...land the confident Italians began what appeared to be a giant pinch on the Canal. They drove a small British garrison out of British Somaliland, and undertook an invasion of Egypt which stalled at Sidi Barrani. Then came a turning point in the Eastern basin. Benito Mussolini called for an invasion of Greece...
...skirts in her right hand, swirling them forward, so the ruffled lining and frilled silk petticoat showed above her ankles and you could see ten inches of her high-heeled buttoned shoes. She held her pocketbook in her left hand but managed to pick up just a pinch of skirt above her knee with the thumb and the forefinger. Holding her skirts that way molded her thighs and showed every beautiful curve of her figure. As she stepped over the curb to the cobblestones, she raised her eyes to the house next door and I could see a slight tremor...
...anyone "holding the bag!" Certainly, a newspaper should be eternally careful to publish the facts as they are, but once having done that, a definite editorial stand has to be taken. And by "facts as they are," I do not mean to skip the ones which are likely to pinch someone's toes, or those which are not in deep and concordant harmony with the men of the press. Since my side has already been branded as red, conservative, capitalist, illiterate, and what hurts most-unamerican, let me add that they are also human beings and as such would like...