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...earlier, eight-day engagement, planes of the U.S. Navy, the R.A.F. and the Canadian Air Force sank six subs, attacked nine others. Not one sub got close enough to fire a torpedo...
...outskirts of Pittsburgh, scattered among three Congressional districts, are labor votes which in 1940 were sufficient to elect Democratic Congressmen from all three districts. Fortnight ago, Governor Edward Martin signed a bill, passed by the legislature after an eight-day Democratic filibuster, which neatly amputated these Democratic areas, added them superfluously to the safely Democratic Pittsburgh district. A similar operation was performed on two Philadelphia districts...
...well as a distortion of the ratio of money minted to money in circulation. The result of hoarding, inflation, illegal withdrawing of "frozen" Axis funds and the sinking recently of an American vessel loaded with new currency made up in the U.S., these conditions had already forced an eight-day bank holiday (TIME, Oct. 12). The time was ripe for a complete overhaul. The Government grabbed the opportunity...
Indefatigable General Yount strives patiently to narrow the time spread between the arrival of the neophyte and the emergence of the airman. He is just short of ubiquitous in his scattered university. In one eight-day period recently he zipped in and out of 16 schools for inspection...
...Crown had been prepared for this defense. Professional Hunter J. A. Hunter testified that three weeks after the murder he had taken Sir Jock and Lady Broughton on an eight-day safari. Said Hunter Hunter: "Sir Delves shot several small antelope. He shot one lion with a heavy double-barreled rifle, . . . walked seven miles a day stalking game, . . . never appeared fatigued. . . . He also helped to pull the dead lions aboard a lorry...