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Russell gained his first major game experience against Princeton last fall, pinch-hitting for Bobby Jones who was out with an injury. But a starting role against Princeton this Saturday is by no means assured him, and the chief obstacle in his way is his classmate, Rick Hedblom. Ever since their Freshman year, these two have been fighting it out at the trigger post. Russell has had the edge thus far in their careers but while he was benched this season, his rival has been storing up some valuable experience and acquitting himself well whenever given the opportunity. In fact...
Leggett was inclined to treat the article as absurd. "Strong arms beat that drum," he said, "and they beat it in a business like manner." He inferred that no little drum could possibly pinch hit for his real McCoy...
...same six months of 1936. C, National Biscuit Co., which has been feeling the pinch of cracker competition. showed a slight gain in the second quarter, though a poor first quarter pulled down earnings for the six months to an indicated ,400,000. For the first half of last year the figure was $6,000,000. C. Helped by modernistic chewing-gum advertising designed by Artist Otis Shepard, William Wrigley Jr. Co. showed profits of $4,354,000 for the first half of 193?-compared to $3,428,000 in the same period of last year...
...business of furnishing vertical transportation to New York and other cities, famed Otis Elevator Co. held an unworried near-monopoly from about 1900 to 1926, controlled as much as 75% of elevator installation in the U. S. Then Westinghouse Electric's new elevator division made Otis feel the pinch of competition, now handles about 20% of the business. In Westinghouse engineering Otis met a worthy rival, perhaps for the first time...
...above May wheat for the first time in history. Rye was even being shipped westward from Buffalo to Chicago. Wheat alone declined as the first shipment of the new crop went to market in Texas. Behind the squeeze was no crafty manipulative scheme to pinch the bears for profit. It was simply a scarcity of grain, resulting from last year's drought and AAA restrictions. In the previous five years the U. S. corn crop averaged nearly 2,300,000,000 bu. annually, a figure itself on the lean side because of the very short crop...