Word: fold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he got a job at Manning, Maxwell & Moore, which operates plants in Bridgeport, Boston. Muskegon and Tulsa, he decided he would rove no more. The company was long on engineering skill, short on merchandising. Wason supplied the merchandising so effectively that sales increased 17-fold in the next ten years...
Typhoid in Germany, reported UNRRA, was at 30 times its normal level in September. Syphilis had a "three-to-nine-fold increase in most countries and a 20-fold increase in Germany." Belgium was recovering from a polio epidemic. But the diseases that worry UNRRA most are 1) tuberculosis, which kills those weakened by exposure and starvation, 2) influenza, which has not yet hit in force (though many Berliners had it last week), 3) the strangely virulent diphtheria which struck hundreds of thousands of central and northern Europeans in 1942 and 1943 (TIME, June...
Advanced Army Reserve Officers' Training in its pre-war form will be reinstated in the academic curriculum starting next term, Dean Buck announced this week. Its two-fold purpose now will be to provide junior officers for the post war army and to expand the training corps organization in anticipation of post war needs...
...Other name playwrights have not made much news. You Touched Me!, by The Glass Menagerie's Tennessee Williams, is just a mild draw; The Next Half Hour, by Harvey's Mary Chase, did a fast fold. So did Irwin Shaw's The Assassin. Robert E. Sherwood's The Rugged Path (TiME, Nov. 19) can largely thank its star, Spencer Tracy, for so far being a box-office hit; it was panned as a play...
...assignment to write an industrial peace treaty, the conference was getting nowhere. Barring a miracle-by a group of men who had proved to be in no mood to perform one-it would soon fold up without offering the American public anything except its regrets...