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Both teams played some fine lacrosse despite the weekly Cambridge deluge which shrunk the rawhide webbings of the sticks. Though a heavier team, Springfield hold its own by playing a faster break and clearing better than the varsity...
Since that time, the nation's health has vastly improved, for many reasons. Payrolls shrunk by the Depression have swollen in boom times and given millions added buying power for medical care. The wonder drugs have worked miracles. World War II, though it killed and maimed hundreds of thousands, gave millions of men & women better medical and dental care than they had ever had before, and made them health-conscious. Group insurance has enabled many families to go to the doctor oftener-and earlier, when it does the most good...
...grounds for prosecution. In trying to break up the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. into seven separate grocery chains, the U.S. complained that A. & P. failed to mark up prices the normal amount. There was no question of monopoly, for A. & P.'s share of total business had shrunk from 11.6% in 1933 to 6.4% in 1949. In the same manner, Antitrust went after Wilmington's Du Pont empire, called it "the largest single concentration of industrial power in the U.S." But did this mean that it was thus, automatically, too big? Should the test be mere size...
...them are more than 50 years old. In this antiquated group 280 buildings are not fire-safe, and 250 have inadequate plumbing. In many neighborhoods now heavily populated by new housing projects there are no schools at all. But some schools are now much too big; their neighborhoods have shrunk as population shifted...
...hard fact seemed to be that Broadway's production roster, which had shrunk from 224 in 1928-29 to an alltime low of 70 last season, was going to shrink further still. The modest wartime boom was really over, but high production costs remained. Producers looked in vain for the freehanded angels who had gone with the boom. Reported Variety last week: "Nearly all [producers] have to ... flail the underbrush for money...