Word: tenfold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fastest-growing business is the slot-machine industry, which has increased tenfold since 1929, employs...
...roamed from Texas to Canada, from the Mississippi to the Cascades. Because of unrestricted killing, by 1911 the pronghorns, like the buffalo, were threatened with extinction. But pronghorn herds, now well protected, have staged a reproductive comeback: in Oregon alone, according to the State Game Commission, they have increased tenfold...
...German electronic microscope described last week, electron beams are straightened out in a magnetic coil, passed through the specimen to be studied, focused in another coil. The voltage used is 80,000. The resolving power (magnification) is 25 times greater than in visual microscopes, whereas a tenfold increase for electronic magnification had previously been considered tops...
...millions in the stockmarket. Hetty conducted her affairs from any desk she chose in Manhattan's old Chemical National Bank, often ate a lunch of sliced Spanish onions while sitting on the bank's floor at noon. When she died in 1916 at 81 she had increased tenfold, to $67,000,000, the fortune founded by her New England whaling and ship-owning ancestors...
Prodded by irate U. S. tiremen, the State Department last week complained about the price of rubber to the British Government-a logical move since the British International Rubber Regulation Committee is quasi-official. Thanks to the committee's restrictive policy, rubber was above 27? per lb., a tenfold increase over its Depression low (TIME, March...