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...motor manufacturer turned out a piddling 1,500 units, mostly trucks. The idle bulk of its 135,000 production employes continued last week, the fifth of the strike, to lose around $800,000 per day in wages. For the first time G. M.'s 330.000 stockholders felt the pinch as quarterly dividends were lopped from 50? to 25?-per share...
...Stravinsky's second week, Beveridge Webster had been asked to play the first night when Samuel Dushkin took sick and had to give up the violin concerto originally announced. Young Webster made his emergency performance so technically telling that few could remember it was done in a pinch. For Pianist Webster, this performance with the Philharmonic was more historic than it was for Stravinsky. For him at 28, it capped a career already prodigious...
...Simpson from the moment King George V died, began to "help" infatuated King Edward VIII, according to her lights. She helped him to spend thousands of guineas royally, imperially, wildly; and she helped him to pinch pennies, convincing His Majesty that in housekeeping she is most economical. Together they cruised the Balkans in one of the world's costliest yachts, they ransacked Carrier's in Paris for diadems, in October they picked out the ermine skins recently made up in London for Mrs. Simpson's Christmas (TIME, Dec. 28). Simultaneously she caught His Majesty's servants...
...plate glass, 85% of its automobile safety glass. Motormakers declared they would not suffer unless the glass strike was a long one. Ford was prepared to make its own glass. General Motors was stocked with a month's supply. But by last week's end the parts pinch had laid off 10,000 to 20,000 workers in Ford's River Rouge factory, crippled production in Ford's and Fierce-Arrow's Buffalo plants...
...with something else a little more concrete. But all those who are more than occasional frequenters must have noticed certain strong, sporadic smells that pervade the place now and then, and raise speculations in the minds of the more imaginative epicures as to whether the hamburgers take perhaps a pinch of the traditional ingredient, goat's dung...