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Last week a House Armed Services subcommittee found the squawks justified. Though the armed services had shrunk about 85% since war's end, the stores were still doing a whopping business. During 1948 the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps operated 589 stores in the continental U.S., grossing $331 million at wholesale prices (at the normal retail markup, plus excise taxes, the gross would have been $500 million, or more...
...longer." Neither was the public. From a wartime high of 4,250,000, the circulation of the two groups had plummeted to 700,000 a month. Changing times and tastes were to blame, said S. & S.; radio, television and the newsstand competition of the 25? reprint books had shrunk the market...
Last week, the Daily Worker announced that the A.Y.D. had dissolved itself. One big reason, perhaps the main one, was that A.Y.D. was finding it too tough to get new members, or even to hold on to old ones. It had shrunk to a handful of active chapters. There was nothing left to do but change names again. Soon, as A.Y.D. promised, U.S. colleges would discover a new "Marxist youth organization" on their campuses, "carrying forward A.Y.D.'s . . . militant activity in the interests of young people." But this time it might be harder: Communist fronts no longer seemed...
...boast of reading each copy from kiver to kiver, I think I am in a position to question your idea of TiME-readers as you portrayed 'em. "To begin, I couldn't afford a subscription to TIME. Liv ing on an income which has shrunk to infinitesimal value since this inflation hit the dollar (Mr. B is an ex-Ma rine Gunnery Sergeant on retirement pay), we have all we can do to exist - let alone spend money for magazines. But we have some friends who know how much good read ing means to us and who send...
...carrier will be the longest (1,090 ft.), and the biggest (65,000 tons) naval vessel afloat, and flat as a flounder. To reduce the ship's visibility and provide extra deck space, the lofty island of wartime U.S. carriers will be shrunk to two turret-like structures which telescope below deck level when not in use. The carrier's gill-like funnels are flush with the armored flight deck; it will have four catapults to fling its planes into the air. Like the 45,000-ton Midway-class carriers, it will be too wide...