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...batting order gets on bases, it's long odds if the lower half can show enough stuff to bring home the bacon. Failure to bring men home was one of the main reasons for losing to Tufts. This weakness is further accentuated by the total lack of pinch hitters...
TRUMPETER, SOUND! - D. L. Murray - Knopf ($2.50). Fiction up-to-date: Victorian London, an innocent actress, a dashing hussar. Balaclava and the Charge of the Light Brigade. Shake well and add a pinch of salt...
Such figures as these last week made John Businessman sit up and pinch himself to make sure that the amazing upswing in trade since last November was really true. Cornerstone of the improvement, said Dun & Bradstreet, was "the strongest desire to buy that the public has displayed since Wartime days." Despite bad weather in certain sections, the final surge of Easter buying boosted retail sales to the highest level in three years and 70% above last year. Sears, Roebuck reported March sales up 57% from 1933. Spectacular reports were expected from the chainstores...
...months later Salesman Martin sold the Detroit News; next, the Boston Globe. The three papers combined reported an 80,000 increase in circulation, held it after the series ended. The Washington Star, Baltimore Sun, and the Philadelphia Bulletin fell into line. William Randolph Hearst began to feel the pinch, quickly ordered the syndicate series for all his papers in the 13 cities still open. Scripps-Howard rushed in, grabbed the pictures for 19 cities...
...corporation officers would be brought directly under the power of the Federal Trade Commission and would incur all the contingent liabilities provided for in the proposed law. Mr. Whitney's whole argument was based on the idea that the little businessman would feel the pinch of the Exchange Bill just as much as the big businessman...