Word: tenfold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Founder Alexander P. de Seversky, Russian-born flyer-designer, was tossed out by his stockholders in 1940. Cautious, businesslike W. Wallace Kellett, autogyro developer, replaced him, while war orders boomed sales tenfold. But early this year Kellett ran into a pack of production troubles (retooling, shortages, etc.). Deliveries sank to only $2,300,000 v. $6,530,000 in the final half...
...Navajos are no vanishing tribe. Second in numbers only to the Cherokees, they have increased tenfold in the last 150 years, now number 50,000 (total of U. S. Indian population: 351,000). They live on a 16,000,000-acre reservation-as big as Belgium and The Netherlands-in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah...