Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Service of the Interior Department. One day in 1934 he had an inspiration. He created in his own imagination a whole CCC camp in Virginia's Shenandoah National Park. The Government had never dreamed of Mr. Stitely's camp but he gave it an imaginary supervisor and eight imaginary foremen. Then he made out payroll vouchers and sent them to the War Department, which pays all National Park Service employes who do conservation work. Unfortunately, he could not make up imaginary CCC boys, for they are not paid through the Park Service. For three-and-a-half years...
After a few years the elder Fung, U. S. born, revisited his ancestral village of Keu Kong near Canton. With him went the adopted white child to be reared in China by Fung's wife, Tan See. Eight years ago Fung's savings ran out, so he returned to the U. S. and the chop suey business. But his white son remained in China...
Actually, only eight people were killed and damage was limited to a few narrow streets in the working class district. El Caudillo Franco's headquarters, the artillery general staff, the press and propaganda departments and the general staff headquarters are all within 100 yards of Salamanca's great ornate cathedral, one of the finest in Spain. Proof that the Leftist raid on Salamanca was not an isolated incident but represented a complete change in policy came quickly. In another Leftist raid, against blustering Queipo de Llano's private bailiwick, the city of Seville, five tons of bombs...
Magazines. The plague of picture magazines did not add a corresponding volume of advertising to the magazine business. But one picture magazine, LIFE, made the most brilliant new showing of the year by selling $7,300,000 worth of space in the first eleven months, crowding into the Big Eight.* The in other leading magazines carried $161,000,000 worth of advertising in 1937, a 15% gain...
...Radio Today, Outdoor Advertising, Inc., Publishers' Information Bureau, Editor & Pub Usher and Printers' Ink. *Eight in order: Saturday Evening Post, Col lier's, American Weekly, Good Housekeeping, TIME, LIFE, Woman's Home Companion, Ladies' Home Journal...