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...More List. As Brazil's President from 1956 to 1961, Kubitschek raised farm and livestock output 37.9%, steel production 100%, aluminum production tenfold, oil production fifteenfold; he built the auto industry from scratch toward its present level of 174,000 units a year, added thousands of miles of roads and the new $600 million inland capital of Brasilia. But he also touched off an inflationary spiral and made many enemies with his damn-the-cost drive. After he left office, rumors of corruption constantly swirled around his administration; so far, however, there has been no proof...
...blade sales took off in a flurry of word-of-mouth advertising. They now have 40% of the total British market and a 5% edge in the $184 million U.S. blade market. Super Swords account for 80% of Wilkinson's pretax profits, which in four years have jumped tenfold to an expected $9.1 million this year...
...with remarkable success by a relative newcomer to the ranks of the leaders. The newcomer is the house of Marcel Rochas, where le president is Mme. Helene Rochas, who took over the company when her husband died in 1955. Since then she has increased Rochas's busi ness tenfold, turning it into one of the six largest perfume makers in France; its turnover last year...
International feuding has flared because the oceans, from which primeval life came, have become more and more an important source of food for a world faced with the prospect of overpopulation. Since the beginning of the century, the fishing yield of the world has increased tenfold, from 4,400,000 tons to 45 million tons; by 1970, the catch is expected to equal 61 million tons. More than 200 countries send fishing boats to sea to help feed their populations, and 48 of these countries account for the great bulk of the world's fish catch, amounting to more...
Under Keppel, the Harvard School of Education's enrollment has risen nearly threefold to 657, its budget tenfold to $3,063,000. Highly influential, the school now boasts as alumni the state commissioners of education in New York and Massachusetts, New York City's newly appointed School Superintendent Calvin E. Gross (who was picked largely on Keppel's recommendation), and last year's head of the White House nursery school, who may have put in a good word about her old dean...