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Word: folds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most striking aspect of the current production is Robert O'Hearn's magnificent set. Without over crowding the stage it combines four rooms two bedrooms a kitchen and a parlor into one moldy lifeless farmhouse. Two drooping elms symbols of an oppressive divinity fold over the Cabot homestead snuffing out the life inside. All the action takes place in and outside this setting, which effectively fuses both the local color and the theme of puritanical repression...

Author: By Joseph P. Lornez, | Title: Desire Under the Elms | 5/23/1952 | See Source »

...business as a boy, chopped ice from a nearby river to freeze his product, and delivered it by wheelbarrow to local drugstores. He built a sizable Pittsburgh business, moved to Florida, and, in 1931, took over the management of Foremost. By expanding into new markets, he boosted sales 50-fold (to $53 million in 1951), has more than doubled Foremost's net (to $1,508,493) in the past five years alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MERGERS: The Wayward Cow-Bus | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

Expand Budget Three-Fold...

Author: By Richard D. Kaplan, | Title: School of Education Launches New Program; University Educators Cease Sixty - Year Feud | 5/8/1952 | See Source »

...promised to finance the operation of 30 to 40 training schools which would turn out 3,000 village leaders every year. This week the first five Ford Foundation training centers are scheduled to open. If all goes well, Nehru hopes to multiply the original Etawah project 600-fold by 1956, thereby benefiting one-third of India's 361 million. That would really give the Moscow radio something to talk about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Root of the Matter | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

...committees throughout the country have collected 100,000 signatures on a petition sent to the government demanding the dissolution of the Communist Party, because it clearly violates Article 32 of the Constitution prohibiting "political organizations of an international or foreign character." With Gutiérrez' followers in the fold on orders from Moscow, Guatemala's Communist Party was doubled in size and more foreign-dominated than ever. But at week's end President Jacobo Arbenz had not even replied to the petition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: The Price of Caviar | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

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