Word: fivefold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...businessmen. The good news was announced by squarejawed, round-tummied K. T. Keller, president of Chrysler, who published a sensational report. Chrysler's sales for six months were up 82% from $188,125,465 last year to $342,788,293. But its profits were up fivefold, from $5,709,599 to $25,345,771. While the industry's car and truck sales rose 47.1% above the first half of 1938, Chrysler's rose 56.1% (the industry excluding Chrysler rose less than 40% in spite of the effect of the May-June strike troubles on Chrysler). Meanwhile, Chrysler...
...sight. Oil can be obtained from shale and coal; the necessary equipment, however, would cost billions of dollars. "Alcohol," said Dr. Brooks, "as a motor fuel is a question of politics and farm subsidies, not of economics," cannot compete with gasoline until the price of gasoline rises fivefold. Therefore he could only conclude that swollen prices and greater dependence on foreign sources were close at hand...
...wheat, barley, oats, rye, ground them to a meal tasting like malted milk powder, found its food value two to five times greater than spinach, carrots, lettuce or chard, its vitamin content up to 50 times greater. Hens fed on this meal laid twice as many eggs containing fivefold as much Vitamin...
...Fivefold, the Grand Council's manifesto contained four additional points all somewhat vague and advanced in the name of "World Peace": 1) suppression of restrictions on international trade: 2) relief of the Danubian countries; 3) revision of "peace treaties responsible for the restiveness of peoples who may cause new wars"; 4) "renunciation of overfrequent conferences which arouse vain hopes...
...Glass-Steagall bill's purpose was fivefold: 1) to open the Federal Reserve's doors to easier borrowing by hard-pressed banks; 2) to attract hoarded money back into bank deposits; 3) to print new paper money; 4) to help the Federal Reserve finance the Treasury's deficit; 5) to free gold to meet foreign demands...