Word: threefold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Expansionist Hunter in the pilot's seat, Northwest pushed westward to Seattle and Portland, hiked gross revenues threefold to $5,000,000, lifted profits from zero to over $400,000. Meanwhile Hunter made a long survey flight to Alaska, followed it with a CAB petition for a commercial route to Fairbanks, others to New York City and Washington. But the war froze these petitions in their pigeonholes, forced Airman Hunter to look for something else. He found it in a big Army contract to fly anything & everything from Minneapolis to Alaska...
...Threefold service will be provided all men who are leaving College for the armed forces after February by the Contact Committee of Phillips Brooks House, it was announced last night. PBH is prepared to provide men in the services with the names of all Harvard men in the same camp, the addresses of other Harvard men in the services, or to write letters to families in the vicinity in order to provide entertainment...
...handle the rush Diamond T expanded factory space almost threefold to 700,000 sq. ft., boosted, employment from 600 to more than 2.000, leaned heavily on suppliers like Hercules Motors (engines). Timken-Detroit (axles), Clark Equipment (transmissions...
...Australia and South America a surplus bigger than any which has ever before existed in this country," the National Wool Growers' Association announced last week. "While the wool textile industry has been working at twice the rate it has ever operated before, available supplies of wool have increased threefold. Available supplies of all wool fabrics have indeed been so plentiful recently that some clothing manufacturers have actually canceled their orders...
...Japanese had taken strong offensive steps, great risks, with a threefold purpose of establishing: 1) a defensive outpost;* 2) a base threatening potential supply routes to Russia's eastern frontier; 3) the first step on a stairway'that might lead to large-scale offensive action against the continental...