Word: fivefold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like a sales manager giving a quiet pep talk, he urged British industry to go out and grab a larger slice of the dollar market. He proposed two "practical, realizable goals"- a fivefold increase in the number of British firms engaged in exporting to the U.S.; and a threefold increase of British exports to the dollar market (from $600 million to $1.8 billion...
...Designating June as "D.P. Action Month," C.W.S. asked each member church to join in furnishing the assurance of job, housing and transportation from port of arrival which the law requires before D.P.s can embark for America. For June C.W.S. set its goal at 18,000 new "assurances," more than fivefold the 3,340 it has received in the last eight months under the Displaced Persons...
Winthrop's quintet yesterday smashed out of a first-place tie with Eliot by downing the Mastodons 26 to 22 and claiming undisputed lead in intramural basketball. The game highlighted a fivefold inter-House field...
...scientists and military observers crawled up & down the blackened sides of seared ships in Bikini's lagoon and stumbled over armored steel decks which had been dimpled by the unearthly blast, they needed little imagination to translate this laboratory test-by multiplying it fivefold or tenfold-into a scene of real war. What they saw was plenty...
Billy Rose spends $1,500 a week for space to get his stuff printed-and rakes in a fivefold return from it at his Diamond Horseshoe nightclub. Most of his copy, which appears in one-column ads every day in the tabloid News and less frequently in other Manhattan papers, shrewdly ignores his place of business, which has a low-budget show, no stars and little to advertise but Billy Rose. His field: "miscellaneous notions on Life, Art, Reforestation and Sex among the Aborigines...