Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eight 10,000-ton cruisers authorized by Congress in 1924 and now abuilding, six had been named-the Pensacola, Salt Lake City, Chester, Chicago, Houston, Augusta. Last week, Secretary Wilbur named a seventh, for obvious reasons, the Northampton. For the eighth ship, a building in Puget Sound, Pacific Coast Republicans urged the name Palo Alto. Iowans protested it should be the West Branch...
...children aboard, and only eight of the 33 women, survive...
Meanwhile eight investigations were projected or under...
Born. To Col. Henry Huddleston Rogers (Standard Oil, railways, public utilities, banks), an eight-pound grandson, child of Mrs. Arturo Peralta Ramos (Millicent Rogers). In 1927 she divorced her first husband, Count Ludwig Salm von Hoogstraeten, by whom she had a son, Peter...
Radioactive dust and emanations entered his system. They attacked his bones, prevented his marrow from making red blood cells. Aplastic anemia developed. Sojourn in high altitudes and 13 blood transfusions were useless. To void the radium that was in him would require, he once figured, 3,520 years. But eight years was all that he lived after he discovered what was wrong with...