Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clipping which stated that Toronto, where the government owns the electric plants, supplies electricity at the rate of two cents per kilowatt hour; while in Alabama, electricity is produced in a government plant at less than two cents per kilowatt hour and then sold by this government plant for eight cents. Does not the Democratic program, of government ownership of the generating plants, with distribution by private companies mean that consumers will be forced--as they now are in Alabama--to pay an enormous profit to the distributing companies? Harvard Thomas-for-President Club, Donald Thompson 1Dv., President...
...again and Putnam ran the ball-back to midfield. On the next play a lateral pass from Putnam to French netted 50 yards and another touchdown, but the first team was offside and the pigskin was called back. The penalty, however, did not stop the University eleven. In eight plays with Batchelder and A. W. Huguley '31 doing most of the carrying, the ball was put over for the second and last score of the afternoon. Huguley made the touchdown on a line buck from the four yard line. Putnam's kick again failed to chalk up the extra point...
They stood motionless for a moment at the toss-in; then the eight ponies twisted and straightened their necks and the last period started. Two minutes later, number one on the U. S. four, William Averell Harriman, carried the ball up from midfield and scored through a tangle at the goal. Five and a half minutes later the people in the stands stood cheering in the rain because the U. S., after trailing at 2-5, had won, by a score of 7-6, the first game in the series intended to decide the "Championship of the Americas...
Last week the opening of the Newark Municipal airport, the purchase by the National Air Transport Inc. of eight new Curtiss Falcon biplanes, the installation by the government of a lighted airway between Salt Lake City and San Francisco made possible in the near future a coast to coast 24-hour air mail service. Last week also saw the inauguration of a direct international airmail line, linking New York, Montreal and Mexico City...
...Thirty-eight thousand feet above Dayton, Ohio, Capt. A. W. Stevens and Lieut. J. H. Doolittle were taking photographs. When their instruments indicated that they were flying toward the city at the rate of a mile a minute, they were in reality being carried away by a head wind of 115 miles an hour. Soon the thermometer registered 57° below zero and instruments ceased to work at all. Finally the oxygen line to Capt. Stevens' breathing cap froze and his head nodded forward. When Lieut. Doolittle struck him a stinging blow in the face he recovered just long...