Word: manyfold
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
First of the Allies to declare war, Britain is intent on being first to turn back its industry to peace. Its vast, humming workshops have multiplied manyfold since 1940, when, in all England, there was but one drop hammer-a prewar, German-made model-capable of forging the life-&-death Spitfire crankshafts. (The man in charge of operating that precious hammer, 49-year-old William Forster, received the British Empire Medal in 1943; but only last week, when the story was told in Parliament, did Britons find out why.) Already, those desperate days seemed far away...