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...York, an official of a waiters' union complained that tips had shrunk sharply since OPA ended. Said he: "The customers are taking out their resentment against the higher price of food on the employes...
...fell until he landed in Normandy on Dday, Schumann was the nightly radio "spokesman of Free France." That gained him a reputation among French patriots second only to that of his chief, General Charles de Gaulle. Schumann's political popularity has grown while the General's has shrunk. One reason: Maurice Schumann is one of France's most emotionally spectacular orators. He is also known for his political honesty and for able administration...
...senior partner in world power, and the British therefore will just have to get used to the way Americans work and think. Wiser Americans note that Britain, in depression for a generation and drained by two wars, is acutely conscious that her margin of survival has shrunk past the danger point. The British anxiety over their dependence on the "reckless" U.S. may be exaggerated or dead wrong, but it is, in view of their own position, understandable...
Following a production of "I Was a King in Babylon" that shrunk some fifteen or twenty minutes with each presentation--and became, therefore, progressively incoherent--the whole concoction of "experimental drama" has reached a boiling point in danger of exploding the esoteric little test-tube--blowing obscure lines, allusive ripostes, and painfully witty scenes into that theatrical afterworld from which reincarnation is impossible...
Marshall Field had taken a hard look at a set of hard facts. No. 1: circulation had shrunk 40,000 (to 335,000) in the three months since he raised his price to a nickel. (But Colonel Robert R. McCormick's Tribune, still 3?, was rocking along at a 1,100,000-a-day clip.) No. 2: newsprint, $61 a year ago, had gone up to $85 a ton. No. 3: hard-headed John S. Knight, whose Daily News is the Sun's landlord, had raised the rent $800,000 a year. (The late Daily News Publisher Frank...