Word: pinching
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...having beer now but when summer comes we're going to have champagne," James Augustine Farrell, trim and stocky little president of U. S. Steel, declared: "We have in our hands the power to restore the steel industry to prosperity in 60 days. . . . This is no time to pinch off a penny or two. . . . The depression is only temporary. ... I agree with Mr., Schwab the situation is a little better...
...Russians find it necessary to ration their own people and to shoot men for forging food cards!" This is exactly what Moscow's "Man of Steel" can do, is doing, will continue to do up to a purposeful point. When the Russian stomach begins to feel the pinch it is and will be convenient to execute subordinates for "plotting famine." Europe's Reation: Swamped with Eggs!" Not only wheat but barley, corn, eggs, lumber and other commodities were rumored dumped by Russia last week upon Europe. M. Le Senateur Henri Cheron, famed Finance Minister of France...
...year. It was broadly stated that wealthy citizens would not play "fat cat" for the Republican cause so long as their cash would be handled under the direction of Chairman Huston. Joseph Randolph Nutt of Cleveland, treasurer of the Republican National Committee, logically the first to feel the financial pinch, took the lead to get Mr. Huston out of office. The Young Guard in the Senate loudly called for his resignation. President Hoover, reluctant to intervene directly by a point-blank demand for the retirement of his old friend and political aide, nevertheless sided with those who wanted...
...Canberra last week Australian canaries were beginning to feel the pinch of singing on Australian seed instead of the imported sort to which they have been used. The embargo on chutney, peanut butter, cigarets and wine means that "Major Grey's Chutney," "BeechNut Peanut Butter," "Abdullah Cigarets" and "Mumm's Cordon Rouge" are totally excluded from Australia. It is not a question of scaling a tariff wall. This is an absolute embargo: "Peanut butter shall not pass!" The exclusion is as rigid against products of Mother England as against those of the U. S. or China...
...small. In some sections a huntsman would have no trouble killing 50 per day. Foolish is the huntsman who takes with him a dog. But for himself he need not worry. Legend to the contrary, porcupines cannot shoot or throw their quills. Only those get stuck who try to pinch or pat a porcupine...