Word: fold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indecency charges, the management of a dismal burlesque-revue called Wine, Women & Song. Said the Mayor: "The title is very misleading. The public thought it was Viennese music." The public, its misapprehensions cleared up, promptly took a new interest in Wine, Women & Song. The managers,who had expected to fold in a week for lack of customers, gleefully hauled down the closing notice. If the court case dragged on long enough, the show might...
...usual salaried people have been the worst sufferers. But wage earners have also had hard times. It was estimated last winter that, against a 40-fold increase in the cost of rice, unskilled Chungking workers had got only a 29-fold wage increase, skilled workers only a 16-fold increase. For a while most farmers and other commodity producers made great profits. But China's runaway prices have caught and passed many producers' incomes. China's inflation pains are not only severe but general...
...Gianninis-never known to throw away a dollar-drove good bargains on all three deals. Reason: like many war babies, the companies were short on working capital and long on excess-profits taxes. But in the Transamerica fold they have millions of working capital at their corporate fingertips, and the tax shield of Transamerica's hefty excess-profits tax exemption. Profits from the Adel plant may triple because the tax rate will be slashed from Adel's 80% to Transamerica...
...watched his Hawaiian volunteer workers, Colonel Unmacht had his big idea. He told the women to fold back the corners of the sacks and stitch them up to resemble rabbit ears. Then he asked Hawaiian hospitals for old X-ray negatives washed clean with acid. The negatives made transparent plastic windows for the front of Colonel Unmacht's bunny masks. At latest reports Hawaiian moppets are so eager to play rabbit in the new masks that parents are being asked to keep all bunny masks laid safely away for a real emergency...
Though Jack Comerford, ace Freshman passer, was one of a quartet that returned to the fold from the injured list, it seems probable that Leo Flynn, former Everett High and Seton Hall Star, will open the game at tailback...