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...your story "New Industry for Ireland": the advent of the Borden Co. is of threefold benefit to us: 1) it utilizes native material, 2) it gives badly needed employment, and 3) the product is for export...
When it ended last week, the crusade was a clear success. Some 3,000,000 Argentines had flocked to the Buenos Aires cathedral, the number of Communion-receivers increased threefold, and baptisms and marriages numbered in the thousands. "The problem now is to keep up the good work," said Bishop Manuel Menendez. "This...
...drop all the double counting out of Soviet output from 1928 on and after somewhat sketchy calculations sets his own revised growth figures. The Soviet habit of multiple counting, he finds, has grown rather than abated over the years. By Academician Strumilin's tables, Soviet industrial output grew threefold between 1945 and 1956, not fourfold as official figures state. And net growth from...
Since the war, the Australian economy has expanded nearly threefold, and "production would not have been possible without the immigrants, who make up half our 19,000 employees," says an executive of General Motors-Holden's, the G.M. subsidiary that makes 50% of Australia's vehicles. Half of the country's steelworkers and almost two-thirds of the workers on the billion dollar Snowy Mountains hydroelectric irrigation complex in New South Wales are, as fellow union members call them, "new blokes." Although some have slowed their work to the notorious prewar "Australian crawl," the overall impact...
...Threefold Increase. Along with the development of biochemistry, medicine has sparked the speedup of a new science, gerontology. Properly the study of aging in all living things, and involving social as well as medical sciences, it has focused most sharply on the aging human since 1903, when Elie Metchnikoff suggested in The Nature of Man that "this science may be called gerontology" (from the Greek geron, an old man). In 1909 Internist Ignatz L. Nascher coined the word geriatrics (from geras, old age, and iatreia, cure) for the medical care of the old. Geriatrics has grown as a sub-specialty...