Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first-hand advice he has recently received from within and without the Administration, President Roosevelt has yet to decide what to do about Recession. Last week, however, he decided what not to do about it. And what he decided was not far different from what Herbert Hoover decided eight years ago when another Depression was getting under way: he made a statement against reducing wages...
Comrade Konarski, although he had served four years and eight months of a five-year sentence at Wytschera Soviet
...Army, the Navy and experimenters for air transport lines have made thousands of blind landings. But last week Pennsylvania-Central Airlines-which has operated over the Allegheny Mountains between Washington and Cleveland for eight years without a fatality-set a ship full of passengers down on Pittsburgh's all-paved airport solely by instruments-and thus claimed to have made the first commercial blind landing. There are Army, Navy and airline blind landing systems. The one used in this case is called "Air-Track," a radio-guided approach system designed to standardize and safeguard all landings, but still awaiting...
...week in San Antonio, Tex., when five postulants entered the convent of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament-a teaching order which has labored ably in the U. S. since 1853-they made news because: 1) they were a mother and four daughters; 2) the four daughters had for eight years been members of an itinerant jazz orchestra called Jerry McRae's Texas ' Rangerettes...
Medical Examiner David C. Dow pronounced a verdict of suicide "due to hanging." He said that Higgins had been dead "eight to ten hours" when the maid discovered the body...