Word: fold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what a headache that first issue was! The machine to fold the Ponies to fit in a letter envelope was delayed at sea and arrived 36 hours late, so all the copies had to be folded by hand. Our postage meter didn't show up in time either-so all the envelopes likewise had to be sealed and stamped by hand...
There were still, however, a few individual surprises. Biggest was that of Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co., which netted a modest $357,347 in last year's first quarter, jumped that almost seven-fold to $2,412,471 this year.* The Texas Co., prospering with the rest of the oil industry upped its net a fat 48% to $11,878,754. General Motors set the pace for the auto industry, now at top war production, with a rise from...
...press. The New Church passed away peacefully early this spring: in an elaborate ecclesiastical ceremony, Patriarch Sergei absolved the repentant Vedensky (who had reappeared for the occasion) of his schismatic sins, kissed him on both cheeks, welcomed him as a brother in good standing back to the Russian Orthodox fold...
Back to the fold with Vedensky came seven of Moscow's chief New Churches (among them the important Voskresensky and Troitsky Cathedrals). Back to Vedensky went his clerical perquisites, including a promotion to bishop. Back to his long poker game with the Soviet Government went Patriarch Sergei. The Russian Orthodox Church was again united...
...much that the Japanese troops had managed to fight, by their own peculiar brand of military osmosis, from the jungles of Burma onto the Manipur plain of India. It was that British troops seemed unable to fold them up now that they were on Indian soil. So, in spite of New Delhi assurances, the spring-legged little invaders seemed a greater threat every day to the Bengal-Assam railway...