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Word: ninefold (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1946-1946
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Minutemen. The Army also had some tremendous figures: for the National Guard, it proposed to keep 574,900 officers & men trained for the ground forces (double the prewar figure) and 47,600 for the Air Forces (a ninefold increase). The minutemen of the atomic age would man 22 infantry and two armored divisions, under an umbrella of 84 interceptor and observation squadrons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - NATIONAL DEFENSE: So Big | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

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