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...Having shrunk from 183 lbs. to 158, he received his discharge last Christmas Day, and was back on Broadway (at the Strand) a month later. When he moved over to the Copa May 30, the boom...
...capital. Even when some crept back, the average cop hardly broke a leg to nab a candidate. Most Uruguayans had forgotten all about the scheme when last week Montevideo's alert El Diario turned up the fact that their hobo college, with a staff of 46, had shrunk to six scholars. Hurriedly the police began beating the boondocks for prospective pupils...
There are other elementary needs. Clothing is desperately short; raw cotton is needed for the surviving textile plants. Transport has to be repaired: river and coastal shipping is down to 100,000 tons from the prewar 1,500,000; railway coverage has shrunk to a fourth of the prewar meager 16,000 miles. Broken dikes must be mended, whole cities rehoused, chronic inflation checked...
Where stood the U.S.? To many a U.S. citizen, to most of the world, the nation seemed to have shrunk farther & farther from responsibility in world affairs. Was it a great power, with a voice and a goal of its own-or just a nervous broker between an implacable Russia and an impoverished Britain...
...steadily on the downgrade for some 16 years. Reason: the company has not been acutely salesminded. It has insisted on making the cars it wanted, rather than what the public wanted. In 1930, it had a firm hold on 40% of the car market. By 1941, its share had shrunk...