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...enrollments at immense University of Chicago and Columbia University have shrunk to 71 and 195 respectively...
...Traffic. This week an observer in heaven would have seen in one spreading glance at the Eastern Seaboard that the greatest of all wartime changes yet had come to the U.S. For the traffic had shrunk to a trickle. All the great, wide, sweetly curved, excellently engineered highways were nigh bare of automobiles. Streets were almost empty. Red lights and green lights blinked mechanically on & off, but nothing stopped or scrambled on. Gas stations stood idle, and many gas tanks were dry. Parking lots stood empty in cities. Traffic cops had little...
News of Maryknollers in the Orient has shrunk to a trickle since Dec. 7. But cables received early this month reported that...
Bituminous production dropped an estimated 1,500,000 tons a day. By week's end, Carnegie-Illinois reported that the mammoth coal pile at its Clairton byproducts plant had shrunk to 200,000 tons, enough for only six days of operation. Shut for want of coke was the hot-strip mill at U.S. Steel's modern Irvin works. One by one, in the nation's industrial center, open hearths were banked...
...Pribilofs were bought by the U.S. as part of Alaska sealing was a profitable industry. By 1910, through leasing sealing rights on the islands, the U.S. had made $9,473,996, nearly one and a half times the price of all Alaska. And by 1911 the seal herds had shrunk from 2,000,000 to a scant 125,000. Then an International Convention was signed. Pelagic sealing- hunting seals in the water-was ended. The U.S. supervised seal hunting on the Pribilofs, turned over 15% of the proceeds to Japan, 15% of the furs to Canada. Since then the seals...