Word: shrunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ever since 1929. In that magic year General Motors, Chrysler and Henry Ford made three out of every four automobiles sold in the U. S. Yet with production topping 5,000,000 units, a sizable market remained for what are called "independents." By last year the total market had shrunk to 1,700,000 and General Motors, Chrysler and Ford were selling nine out of every ten cars bought...
Within a few minutes, it was clear to the world's markets that Mr. Callander's Board had confirmed the worst fears for U. S. Agriculture. The wheat fields were not quite so bare as private observers had calculated (TIME, Aug 6). But cotton-land had shrunk below the gloomiest private guesses. And the misadventures of corn were a sensation. In a month, 500,000,000 bu. of corn had disappeared from U. S. fields and the 1934 harvest was officially estimated as 1,600,000,000 bu. as against 2,300,000,000 bu. last year. The price...
Those who went to Washington on Labor questions last week went to see "Madam Queen." Her prestige had grown while others' had shrunk. She received President Green of the A. F. of L. and President Mike Tighe of the steel workers with their proposals for settling steel's labor troubles. She took the plan to the White House, explained it to the President, stood by while he interviewed the union men. To leave no doubt of her new importance the President issued a formal announcement: "I have referred the proposal to the Secretary of Labor for careful study...
...person, but like Santa Claus he has plenty of devoted henchmen to make his purposeful deliveries. If Adolf Hitler came home with a swelled head and hot new ideas for Dictatorship from his visit to Benito Mussolini (TIME, June 25). certainly last week he was dextrously chilled and shrunk-and by the very Hindenburg henchman who first presented him to the President, dapper, nonchalant Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen...
...Zuercher Zeitung, and those that could read French, the eminently respectable Journal de Geneve. Like the attentive public of Fan-dancer Sally Rand they never saw what they were looking for. but they never lost hope. And month after month the circulation and income of Nazi newspapers has shriveled & shrunk. That German reader interest was down to a new low concerned Herren Hitler and Goebbels much less than the fact that the decline in advertising had adversely affected all local trade and economic conditions in general. Two months ago one of the two or three most eminent papers in Germany...