Word: shrank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eleven years, Minister of Government Guillermo Amaya last week coolly proved that the flow of blood is ebbing. During the first six months of 1958, said Amaya, 3,198 people were slaughtered in backlands violence-an average of 15.2 a day.* In the past six months the death toll shrank to 841, and by March the daily killing average was down to four...
When the glacier finally drew back toward Canada (about 23,000 B.C.), the unburdened crust began to recover, and the dimple flattened out. Ohio, Iowa, Michigan and Wisconsin rose out of the Leverett Sea. The broad estuary that led to the Gulf shrank to form the modern Mississippi...
...most remarkable Moore traits is his ability to maintain fighting shape at widely varying weights. Now a natural heavyweight, he somehow manages to shed enough poundage from an already fat-spare frame to make the 175 lb. limit for light-heavyweight title defenses. For Durelle, Archie shrank from 208 to 174 without noticeable strain or impairment of his powerful punch. He slyly insists he got a secret reducing formula while fighting in Australia years ago, gave an aborigine a red turtlenecked sweater for it. Says Archie: "I figured they had the straight dope. All the time I was there...
...virtually everything except dry cleaning. These wonders are mainly attributable to the invasion of foreign machines (about 1,000,000 a year), such as Italy's Necchi, which ten years ago caught staid old Singer with its slip showing. The new gadgets on Necchi and other machines shrank Singer's sales in the U.S. from its two-thirds grip of the U.S. market to one-third. Now Singer is bouncing back. It says that its Slant-O-Matic, $399.50 in Early American cabinet, can match-sew any foreign make. Soon sister Susie should sew a shirt in seconds...
...year ago, the U.S. Government was able to report last week that unemployment had dropped at more than the usual seasonal rate. In a joint release, the Commerce and Labor Departments announced a May unemployment total of 4,904,000, down 216.-000 from April. The unemployment percentage shrank from 7.5% of the labor force to 7.2%, and total employment rose to 64,061,000, showing a better-than-seasonal jump...