Word: folds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...housing boom, now being choked off by the new credit controls, had proved a bonanza for many a supplier. Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Co., whose rug sales had slumped last year, managed to increase its net an incredible 30-fold from $61,500 to $1.9 million by merely doubling its sales. Alexander Smith & Sons Carpet Co., which boosted its nine-month net six-fold to $4 million, declared an extra dividend of 50?. So did American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp., biggest in the plumbing fixtures trade. American Radiator's net hit an alltime high of $17.7 million for the first...
...hoped to earn money for the purchase of machinery. Discontent is already growing on the countryside; only two weeks ago starving peasants in the village of Selo burned local government headquarters. Similar outbreaks may convince Russia that the time is ripe to bring Yugoslavia back into the Cominform fold by getting rid of Tito and the Titoists...
...Hanoi and Kunming cross into China; in the south at Langson where the railway between Hanoi and Ningming crosses the border. Laokay was cut off and dependent on supply by air. There were reports of Communist troops regrouping before Langson, from which civilians were being evacuated. Should either flank fold, the Communists would have uninterrupted rail transport to the rice-rich delta. The Chinese Communists were repairing their ends of the two railways...
After hearing the LaFollette-Hazlitt-Chamberlain plan, he decided to fold up faltering Plain Talk and transfer the 5,000 unexpired subscriptions to The Freeman. He became treasurer and helped to raise $130,000 (of which Kohlberg contributed 10%). Names of other supporters were a resolutely-kept secret...
George M. Kurzon '52, president of Ivy Films, announced yesterday that the motion picture was contracted last September, before the world premier, to the Olio-Video Corporation for distribution. Kurzon stated that he had received word that "A Touch of the Times" will have a two-fold opening sometime in October at the Fifth Avenue Playhouse and the Fifty-fifth Avenue Playhouse and the Fifty-fifth Street Playhouse in New York...