Word: folds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile a mysterious fact about the problem emerged from the mountains of testimony heaped before the long-suffering Small Business Committee last week: though for more than a year one war agency after another has wept and cried "Wolf" about how many little men were about to fold up because of the war, so far the agencies set up to "save" small business have shown much less staying power than their proteges. All the experts had to admit last week that no one yet knew the score on "business mortality," but what little they did know made it seem little...
...history of this heavy-browed tycoon and his United Mine Workers is as dramatic as it is paradoxical. Not ten years ago, Lewis put Labor on the map. It was he who conceived the ideal of industrial organization, and led his courageous group of miners from the musty fold of the A F of L. It was he who built up the ranks during the depression years, and made them a strong political factor in the elections of 1932 and 1936. Strongfisted and crusading, John L. was the biggest frog in a growing pond of industrial unionism up until...
That most major-leaguers are married men with children may help save big-league baseball for 1943. But the small minor leagues-where players are young, most games are played at night, and bus transportation is the mainstay-have little hope of survival. If the bush leagues fold, big-league clubs will be forced to let their farm systems go to seed, ending the annual harvest of young players. But, conscious of their obligation to "civilian morale and the boys overseas" (as well as to their own investments), club owners intend to go ahead until the Government says "Stop...
...ceremony formally welcoming them to the College, members of the second instalment of the wartime class of 1946 were told last night that Harvard had assumed a "staggering responsibility" in attempting the two-fold task of training them to win the war and preparing them to reconstruct the post-war work, all within the limits of the accelerated program...
...farm leader who was willing to take this stand has played his cards shrewdly, honestly; once a migrant farm hand, he has put himself well within the New Deal's inner fold...