Word: eights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...obviously displeased Wadleigh, then led him to an examination of the 54 documents in evidence. After a long period of questioning and paper-shuffling, Lawyer Cross drew forth an admission calculated to raise a doubt in the jury's mind: Wadleigh said that he might conceivably have seen eight of the documents while he was in the State Department...
...hamstringing restrictions on private enterprise. Through the campaign Labor fought with feeble punches: Government orators warned that only Labor could maintain full employment; Labor propaganda included a "ticket" bearing a crossed pick & shovel and the slogan, "Express to the Golden Age." But Australia had been riding the express for eight years, had found no golden age, eaten no pie from...
Riding Out the Rise. At week's end Gonzalez made devaluation law by decree. Instead of the eight old dollar-peso exchange rates, Chile got just one, pegged, after talks with the International Monetary Fund, at about 65 to the dollar. At the same time, food and drug products and bus fares got state subsidies, while income taxes were hiked and new taxes levied on horse-race betting, cigarettes, soft drinks and automobiles. And for the first time, tax-dodgers were made liable to imprisonment...
...initial contribution to the fund will come from this year's Student Government Association, in the hope that future classes will add to it. Administration of the fund will fall to a Student Council committee consisting of four of the eight class representatives...
...Eight-one percent said they thought there is a need at the College for an ice rink. The rink, which would be strictly a "natural" one dependent on the weather, would be regulation hockey size and could be used by the varsity and House hockey squads. It would be located probably in the stadium or right next...