Word: eights
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...overlooking San Francisco Bay; "elephant trains," salvaged from the Exposition's dismantled Treasure Island, to transport latecomers from the far end of the vast parking area. Instead of tractors to haul the huge starting gate around, California's latest track sports 16 beautifully matched, blue-ribbon Percherons (eight greys, eight blacks)-undefeated at California horse shows for the past two years. "There'll be a horse show as well as horse races every day at Golden Gate Park," hawked Manager Madigan last week...
...Eight years ago Whitney turned over the directorship to Dr. Coolidge, since then with immense pleasure has puttered around on his own experiments. He is 72. Asked recently whether he would write a book, he said he was too busy, would write one when...
...Britain by eliminating the silly-fool dollar sign from the transaction, he stamped 1940 as a year in which a U. S. Revolution came out in the open. In that symbolic phrase, and in the year of gathering fears and tensions that had led up to it, the whole eight-year course of the New Deal seemed suddenly to be photographed in lightning. Politicians had steadily taken power from businessmen. And now in A.D. 1940, with the world in the grip of war economy, even dollars had ceased to be as important as something else...
...gross tons of merchant shipping under construction, was launching a vessel a week (last week's: the 17,500-ton Rio Parana, for New York-South America service). The venerable Cramp yards in Philadelphia reopened with a $106,380,000 Navy order; eight Navy, 23 private yards worked at top speed. Last week, for dessert, the British attempted to offset their shipping losses by placing a $100,000,000 order for 60 10,000-ton (dead weight) freighters in the U. S. For this, the largest single merchant-ship order ever placed, Todd Shipyards started building two new yards...
...sold for $1,875 (6¼? a share), or $675 less than the seller (possibly Pennroad Corp.) had to pay in commissions and transfer taxes. Corn Products Refining Corp., which pays a $3 dividend and sold as high as $65.12 this year, went at a bargain near its eight-year...