Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Detroit was not alone in its troubles. The orchestra that hard-working Conductor Izler Solomon had built in Columbus, Ohio had finally tumbled down in its eighth year, unable to raise $90,000 for its oncoming season. Baltimore and Seattle, among others, would limp through their seasons, still on the sick list. But from Portland, Ore. last week came cheering news of a remedy if not a cure...
Russia's standard claim to vast economic progress got one more ringing refutation last week. After long study, Australian economist Colin Clark documented his conclusion that the rate of Soviet production per man-hour of work was less than one-eighth that of the U.S. "Economic progress in Russia," said Clark, "has been uncertain and slow, and the most recent figures indicate that productivity is now only at about [its] 1900 level...
...when his opponent tried to reach him with sledgehammer rights. Except for round six, when Lesnevich spent himself in a hammer & tongs attack, the fight was all Ezzard's. When wornout, scar-tissued Gus Lesnevich, his face puffed and bleeding, failed to get off his stool for the eighth round, the fight went to Ezzard on a technical knockout. In spite of the human virtues which had denied Ezzard Charles the true killer instinct of the great fighter, he looked like the best heavyweight in the game...
Another sizzling hot rock is Kirk Douglas, who began his theatrical career as a carnival wrestler, moved on to Broadway before he went to Hollywood in 1945. In his eighth picture, Champion, Douglas was poisonously perfect in the cobra-cold title role. Warner promptly signed him to a seven-year contract for nine pictures at about $125,000 a picture...
Were U.S. railroads pricing themselves out of business? The Interstate Commerce Commission thought so. Since war's end, the railroads have asked for, and received, seven freight-rate increases, but freight revenues have been slipping anyway. Last week ICC reluctantly handed out an eighth increase (an average of 3.7%), boosting freight rates-and shippers' bills-an estimated $293 million annually. The commission also handed down a warning: the railroads' higher rates are diverting more & more business to trucks, a trend that "is too impressive and formidable to be ignored...