Word: fourfold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rolling Money. There is no denying that, for the man in charge, Indonesia is a good place to get away from, these days. Prices have risen fourfold in the past seven years; the production of Indonesia's important palm-oil and rubber estates is down at least 30% compared to pre-World War II. Sugar, which used to be a major export, is now so scarce that in places it can be found only on the black market. The government's presses are rolling out paper money that has no backing. Bureaucracy is so rampant that 32 separate...
...Parisian Painter Yves Klein. He has his nude models smear themselves with paint, then lets them hurl themselves at a blank canvas while he shouts directions from a stepladder. By such tricks, Klein has become at 32 the fad of gallery-going France, and his prices have risen fourfold in the past two years. Last week he invaded West Germany with an eyebrow-raising exhibit in the textile town of Krefeld, twelve miles northwest of Düsseldorf. The good people of Krefeld hardly knew what to make...
...questions that the future would ask about his Administration, said Kennedy, were fourfold: "Were we truly men of courage? Were we truly men of judgment? Were we truly men of integrity? Were we truly men of dedication-with an honor mortgaged to no single individual or group, and compromised by no private obligation or aim, but devoted solely to serving the public good and the national interest...
...HEALTH, EDUCATION & WELFARE. Federal outlays for medical research increased more than fourfold. The National Defense Education Act of 1958, "a milestone in the history of American education," provided federal funds to improve school curriculums, train additional teachers and furnish scholarships for bright youngsters whose parents cannot afford to send them to college. Social security coverage was broadened to include an additional n million persons...
...Soviet output from 1928 on and after somewhat sketchy calculations sets his own revised growth figures. The Soviet habit of multiple counting, he finds, has grown rather than abated over the years. By Academician Strumilin's tables, Soviet industrial output grew threefold between 1945 and 1956, not fourfold as official figures state. And net growth from...