Word: folds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, members of the National Institute of Diaper Services crowded into the Hotel Statler to witness a demonstration of the Darrah-fold, the newest method of solving the oldest problem of infant care. Their conclusion: the new technique, which applies five thicknesses of cloth where they are most needed, might revolutionize diaper-folding...
...waste any thoughts on the future," she says. "I don't plan for it." Sister Sadie is 98, the oldest living member of the sect; there are only about 50 left. For within the Shaker fold, as in the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no marriage or giving in marriage; Shakers are made, not born, and there were never more than 6,000 of them. But for 200 years they carried on a remarkable experiment in welding mystical religion with practicality...
...Easy Way. Today he has six flying schools, more than 300 private planes and some 35 freight-flying lines at his field. No matter how harebrained their plans, Wehran is willing to let the freight flyers set up shop at his field. Some ex-Navy pilots flew in a folding-wing torpedo bomber a fortnight ago. In delivering freight, they plan to fold the wings, run the plane through the streets to their destination...
This yarn, repeated at a businessmen's luncheon early this year, put an idea in the heads of three officials of the Catholic War Veterans. They reasoned that the last place anyone would look for Communists would be within the Roman Catholic fold.* They decided that they had better start looking...
...conservative U.S. papers the sultry little tale from Havana got what it deserved: decent burial on an inside page, below the fold. In the tabloids, and such dailies as are tabloids under the skin, the life, loves and death of one John Lester Mee got top billing as the season's spiciest mixture of sin, sex, masochism and mon-keyshine justice. It was the type of news the U.S. press tells only too well, and loves to tell...