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...Polo Shirts. Now the carpets in Prince Louis's Casino were threadbare. Only two gambling rooms were open, for chance's devotees had shrunk to a handful of shabby Frenchmen and Spaniards, a Greek, a Turk. Some of the players-oh, calamity-wore polo shirts. One wrinkled woman, 92, still wagered 50-franc chips as she had done daily for a quarter century. Others jotted down numbers in notebooks. These were the survivors...
Rundstedt's salient had shrunk to about half its maximum area. His troops in the western end were going hungry, running out of fuel, felling trees and laying mines in the path of the advancing Allies. The next move was up to the German. The preliminary accounting of this battle was still plainly in his favor. Time, the patient bookkeeper, had not yet presented him with a final bill...
According to the corporation's annual report, the late steel master Andrew Carnegie's onetime average $6,000,000 annual largess to U.S. colleges and universities, which once constituted 6.6% of their total income, has now shrunk to a piddling $58,000 (about .009%). One reason was that the corporation diverted much of its income to the Red Cross, the National War Fund and international-relations projects. Another was that U.S. colleges and universities are much richer than they used to be. In a typical recent year (1940), their income exceeded $630,000,000. Finally, the Government sources...
...past 90 days we have had to increase our estimate of the production ... to fight Japan after Germany is defeated. . . . It will cost us $71 billion a year." This was the first official word to U.S. business that the cutbacks in war production after V-E day have shrunk from the 40% which WPB once promised to a slim 15-20%. (Actually General Somervell had overstated the case by lumping in all the costs of ending the German war, contract terminations...
...original cast of 30 defendants has shrunk to 26-one has died; two were granted motions of severance because of poor health; one, who will be tried later, was severed for obstreperous conduct...