Word: eights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eight-day ski trip to Cardigan and a ten-day excursion to Pinkham Notch both began last Friday, courtesy of the Appalachian Mountain Club...
...doctors learned last week how much it costs to wage all-out propaganda war against President Truman's national health insurance program: in eight months, the American Medical Association's press-agents had spent a whopping $1,394,000. But to the 3,942 A.M.A. members gathered in Washington, no price seemed too high to fight off the threat of socialized medicine. So the A.M.A. voted, for the first time in its' 102-year history, to levy dues ($25 a year) on its members...
...high, sales-sharp Nathan Cummings, chairman of the giant Consolidated Grocers Corp., thought there was something wrong. He felt that neither he nor the grocers were selling enough food. To find out how to boost sales, the boss of the largest U.S. food wholesaling organization packed a sample case eight weeks ago and took off on a tour of hundreds of stores in ten states. He frequently donned a cotton coat and worked for stores behind the counters, "cut the cans" (gave out free samples), watched shoppers' buying habits and gossiped with scores of customers...
Australia's new Prime Minister, Robert Gordon Menzies, announced last night the names of 14 Liberal and five Country Party leaders as members of his coalition cabinet. They will be swern in tomorrow to take over from the eight-year-old Labor government which lost the December 10 elections...
...Thirty eight hundred fans at Washington's National Guard Armory watched the varsity basketball team drop its second game Saturday night, 58 to 53. In its first road match this year, the quintet had traveled south to meet Georgetown, and the undefeated Hoyas produced their fifth straight...