Word: twentyfold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warbaby. Its Rubatex division is full of Army-Navy orders for electrical insulation, rubber aircraft parts, etc.; Connecticut Telephone is producing much field equipment used by the Russians; Ward La France is producing giant rescue trucks for the Army. Result: since 1939 the combination's sales have skyrocketed twentyfold to over $25,000,000, profits have jumped tenfold to over $600,000. Come peace, Stanley Odium (who will join the Air Corps soon) has other plans: concentrate on trucks, get Rubatex to supply the rubber parts, while Connecticut furnishes spark plugs and ignition systems...
...nation's annual steel capacity), buildings, machine tools, engines, multitudinous fittings, parts, precision instruments by the freight-carful. The job involved not only freighters but ore carriers, tugs, tankers. It involved priorities and allocation problems, as naval building also exploded into new, titanic activity. It meant a twentyfold increase of the 1939 rate of building by the end of 1942. It meant the mobilization of the country's shipbuilding brains...