Word: folds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peer of C.I.O.'s Phil Murray. The newly prodigious membership gave the Federation vast political power and an annual income exceeding $3,735,000. The record-breaking total was reached at the 63rd annual convention, in Boston, when the International Association of Machinists came back into the fold...
...Chicago's white-gloved Drake Hotel, around a decorously felted table, A.F. of L.'s Executive Council had conferred long and windily over taking John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers back into the fold. On the first day they listened to taciturn Lloyd A. Thrush, president of A.F. of L.'s Progressive Mine Workers,* whose specialty is a passionate hatred of John L. Lewis...
...thought these bastards would fold before this," he said...
...hunter" pulls a trigger, releases a high-pressure charge which saturates the air of tent, hut, or dugout with a quick insect-killing mixture of sesame oil and extract of pyrethrum flowers, vaporized by Freon. Aerosol, says the Army, tracks down mosquitoes to the last, remote fold of clothing and tent. Chief producer of aerosol is Westinghouse. But Freon is still the essential spreading agent of aerosol...
Hastings today contains a hodge-podge of men from different walks of life doing different things, but the great majority of those there today will fold their tents by November...