I would say 30,000 cause all the next developments were from the 1860's forward and that is when huge growth happened, after 1860.
The british gave president wilson the zimmerman telegram on feb 24th and on march 1st the i.s. press reported on its existence.
Paid media, the campaigns can pay to have whatever they want put out by any media source willing to accept their money and information.
Even though the main purpose of that war were to fight comunist aggresion and refrain the comunism to take over the world, it was more damaging than beneficial. The first precedent of this war was the tragedy of Vietnam. It was a war that never ended because it was not officialy done <span>even though the shooting has stopped.</span>
B <span>The Great Depression. Is the validated answer Glad to help :) </span>