Word: fold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from basement to smokestack. He built up a glib-tongued sales staff, put zip into a faltering aviation-engine division, concentrated all operations in the Muskegon plant, slashed monthly operating expenses $75,000. Soon bigtime customers like Sears, Roebuck, J. I. Case and Checker Cab came back into the fold. In 1940, sales rose 50% to $10,908,000 and the company earned $612,000 v. the preceding year's $215,000 deficit...
Professor Sherman deplores the five-fold increase in sugar consumption per capita in Great Britain and the U.S. during the past century, hopes that modern bread will replace sugar, for which it is the best substitute...
Describing his bureau's job, William C. Herrington, head of the branch here, said, "Our three-fold purpose is to find out the conditions of marine fisheries, to find the cause of any poor conditions we may uncover, and to develop proper remedial management means to increase and maintain good fishing yields...
According to authorities, the Common Room was already too big so that decreasing its size will accomplish a two fold purpose. The men from the Maintenance Department are hard at work since the job must be completed in September when the fall session starts, although the Common Room appears, at present, to be more in the process of destruction than construction...
...World War I, U.S. railroads used four times as many day coaches as Pullmans to haul troops, and at night a doughboy usually had to fold himself up to rest on a dusty, red-plush day-coach seat. Today's soldiers travel across the U.S. two in a lower berth, one in an upper.* The Army now gets 28 Pullmans for each coach. The War Department's Services of Supply gives other reasons than comfort for preferring Pullman travel: 1) when troops move at night by sleeper, nobody is the wiser; 2) civilian rail traffic is lighter...