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...national income is about $20 to $25 billion less than it should be. The economy should have grown about 3% this year. Instead it has shrunk about...
Relativity in Action. The teeth are about an inch apart along the undulator, and this seems coarse for an apparatus that yields such tiny waves. But the undulator is "shrunk" by one of the strange effects connected with Einstein's relativity. According to "the Lorentz contraction," a stationary object shrinks when it is observed from a moving object. The faster the motion, the more the shrinkage...
...Canadian prairies last week, but in many a field the wheat was dull brown instead of the normal harvest yellow. Fostered by cloudy, wet weather, an epidemic of rust fungus had ravaged Canada's wheat crop. Between the grain rust and bad weather, the 1954 harvest has shrunk to an estimated 370 million bushels-36% below 1953 and 44% below...
...Atlantic City, N.J. last week, Richard W. Slocum, executive vice president of the Philadelphia Bulletin and president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, stepped up before 1,000 newspaper production men and said sternly: "The day of easy money [for newspapers] is gone . . . Some newspapers have shrunk, and more have died than we like to talk about. More will shrink and die if we do not meet our present-day problems." Publisher Slocum was gloomy about the newspaper business with reason. All over the U.S., rising costs have squeezed profit margins of newspaper publishers to the lowest point in years...
...Jacob, with whom Etienne lives, has spent his time observing life with such quiet detachment that he has "reached his sixtieth year without ever having had a serious illness or an enduring sorrow." Vigorous pioneers built the home of Jacob and Etienne, but in four generations the family has "shrunk to two quiet bachelors...