Word: folds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry Ford and Charles Figy, Michigan's Commissioner of Agriculture. Ford, who owns the acre of land used for the project, brought along a -year-old self-raking reaper for use in the harvesting. Figy came to inspect the wheat which in its first harvesting had multiplied 50-fold, almost twice Michigan's average. So rapidly did the wheat grains grow that Hayden calls them "dynamic kernels." Next year, Hayden expects to harvest from 15 to 20 acres...
...plane may release a platoon of paratroopers, then circle back to land a little behind the lines and take on 18 to 24 wounded men. Conversion is simple: the evacuation team (a nurse and an enlisted man) fold back the seats and fish up webbing from below the floor boards to support litters. The only other special equipment is a medical supply...
...this is far from meaning that the Axis is ready to fold, but is impressive evidence of the state of mind on the Continent this week...
...weary air, resembles an undersized, underfed St. Bernard dog. But as soon as he speaks in his crisp, incisive Highland voice, the listener is aware that he is a man of unassuming but confident mental powers. His fame, as the Duke said in his tribute, stems from his four-fold talents as "scholar, teacher, preacher and author." (Best-known books: Invitation to Pilgrimage; And the Life Everlasting...
...seems likely, the Mine Workers return to the A.F. of L. fold, John Lewis will be the cat, Green the canary. Further, A.F. of L. will immediately become the predominant labor bloc in the country, with a membership approaching 7,000,000 as against C.I.O.'s 5,000,000. And finally, John Lewis will have boosted himself into a new strategic position to play politics (and probably bitter isolationist politics) in the election...