Word: folding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hands of social-working Deputy WPAdministrator Aubrey Willis Williams, who at the age of six went to work in a torpedo factory. In spite of setbacks and criticism, Aubrey Williams pushed ahead with NYA. With the help of Executive Director Richard R. Brown, he set up a two-fold machine which gave spare-time academic work to students, part-time public work to vagrants. Across the U. S., youth won wages and self-confidence as they catalogued, filed, checked records, cleared parks and playgrounds, plowed, harrowed, reaped, graded, dumped, filled, drained, made heavy-duty roads and blue-shale tennis courts...
...specializing in toilet tissue, developing its technology steadily, and leading the industry in price-cutting, Scott Paper Co. increased its dollar sales 19-fold between...
...hall where S. U. P. was holding its weekly meeting, they found the Norse giant himself, blocking the door. Fists clenched, he thundered at Revels Cayton, author of the unity proposal, denounced him as fink and traitor. Of the secessionists only the repentant firemen returned to the federation fold. This week Lundeberg announced worse news for the Maritime Federation: His sailors had now chosen A. F. of L. by a 2-1 vote, were ready to join A. F. of L.'s Maritime workers under Joseph P. Ryan in a new organization romantically called the Seafarers' Federation. Result...
Although Führer Adolf Hitler's main plank is return of all German minorities to the Reich fold, his passiveness toward the South Tyroleans has contrasted with his agitation for the Sudeten Germans of Czechoslovakia. To South-Tyrolean Anschluss agitation the Führer has lately turned a cold shoulder, has declared Italy's present frontiers inviolable, has let the word be passed around that Ally Mussolini should not be embarrassed by Nazi agitation for a German Tyrol...
...Rochester (N. Y.) Advertising Club, Bridge Expert Ely Culbertson talked about himself. Said he: "I took myself and multiplied myself 100-fold. For instance, by nature I am witty. So I worked night and day to be brilliant. By nature, I am cocky. So I multiplied it.... By nature I am humble. ... I really know I am, for only humble people have the right to be conceited. That's why I'm so humble...