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Word: fourteenfold (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Slavonic Bill Holden. Marton, 42, is managing director of Zagreb-based Sljeme Agricultural Industrial Corp., whose sales last year topped $37 million -a fourteenfold increase in eight years. Sljeme (pronounced Slay-me) now owns four farms stocked with 20,000 head of cattle, 100,000 pigs, 2,000,000 poultry, and ponds full of trout and carp. It employs 3,500 workers and has four large factories that produce everything from semiprepared "TV dinners" to pickled pigs' feet for sale in its 60 food stores, eight restaurants and one hotel. And it makes its deliveries in its own fleet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yugoslavia: Capitalistic Comrade | 4/3/1964 | See Source »

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