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Last week the great battle of Maragogy had shrunk, in Rio rumor, to ridiculous scale. It was decided that probably the terrible flashes and thunderous gun-talk had been only searchlights and rockets from the S.S. Delnorte picking up survivors from the torpedoed S.S. I.C. White (TIME...
...Organize "continental Europe as a federated commonwealth"-because "the world has so shrunk" that America will otherwise be drawn into every war Europe starts...
...total U.S. advertising budget has shrunk: it is now an estimated $1,660,000,000, down about $680,000,000 since 1929. Out of this shriveling ad dollar newspapers still get the biggest cut-32.8? (periodicals took 13.6?, radio 12?). Dollarwise, newspaper advertising revenue has fallen from $797 million in 1929 to $545 million (periodicals down from $323 million to $225 million; radio up from $23 million to $200 million...
When the girls got the good news last week that his will had been filed, they gurgled: "Kind and generous man . . ." ". . . couldn't have been kinder or sweeter. . . ." But there was no million. The estate had shrunk...
...copy until it was too late to go on the air. Once when this happened, the German Broadcasting Co. cabled New York: "Regret Shirer arrived too late today to do broadcast." So Shirer went home. As his ship moved out of Lisbon harbor, he observed that European civilization had shrunk to little more than the coast he was escaping from...