Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the Girl Scouts' directors elected a new chairman to succeed Mrs. Hoover. They elected the lady who for eight years had been national Girl Scout treasurer, Mrs. Genevieve Garvan Brady...
Surprised, financial writers recalled that the experiment had been tried before and had failed. Eight years ago, independent companies formed the Consolidated Steel corporation to handle foreign orders. American exports promptly declined. The corporation disbanded. But the alert writers also noted that the mighty U. S. Steel Corp. had not joined that earlier combine, is now uniting with other steel makers for the first time in its history...
...tallest, slimmest and most famous of them all, Harry Payne Whitney's Vanitie, always sails against the Resolute and often wins. This time it won but was disqualified for failing to cross the starting line properly. At Southport, Conn., Princeton beat Yale and Harvard in a race of eight-metre boats...
...Steam Yacht ready for launching" said the telegram received in Cincinnati by Julius Fleishmann, yeast heir. It meant that his twin-screw, clipper stem, Diesel yacht, with its accommodations for 14 guests, its lockers holding food enough for eight months at sea, its living room, smoking room, dining room, its owner's private gymnasium, lounge room, and dressing room, its cold storage plant, its shining mahogany and brass, was standing at the head of a slide in Manhattan, worth $625,000. Mrs. Fleishmann christened...
...with George Oliver May, wealthy Manhattan accountant, last week gave a trophy and prizes for the first intercollegiate yacht race. Harvard, Yale and Princeton, in Norwegian eight-metre yachts, borrowed from the Pequot Yacht Club, raced a 6.9 mile course off Southport, Conn. Princeton's boat won the cup; each member of the crew a silver ashtray...