Word: twentyfold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From 16th place among the world's trading nations in 1938, Russia has risen to sixth-and is still rising. Its volume jumped from $1.5 billion in 1946 to $8.25 billion last year; its exports of industrial equipment have increased twentyfold. Today the Soviet Union has trade agreements with some 31 countries outside the Iron Curtain, and in the last year alone added Morocco, Tunisia, Cambodia, Japan and Ceylon to its list...
...sleeping pills, Schering Corp. released last week (on prescription only) capsules of a drug named Dormison, which contains no barbiturates or bromides. To more than 1,000 human guinea pigs, Dormison brought restful sleep within half an hour and left no hangover on waking. Anybody who takes even a twentyfold overdose can be revived with caffeine...