Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan hotel room and the now-extinct Continental Trading Co. of Canada bought 33,333,333 bbls. of oil for $1.50 per barrel. The same day, the Continental Co. sold the same oil for $1.75 per barrel to the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, instantly netting some eight million dollars on paper.* The strange thing was that a third company, which guaranteed the Continental purchase, was jointly owned by Sinclair, who controlled Continental and the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, which was buying from Continental...
Looms this spring a French general election. Will the "Sacred Union Cabinet" of Premier Raymond Poincare hold together and face the country as a unit? For months jockeying politicians have been trying to engineer a split. Last week a great speech, eight hours long, was delivered on two successive days by Premier & Finance Minister Poincare. When he sat down virtually all correspondents cabled that the union of his Cabinet for election purposes is now monolithic. Was this news? Characteristically, the U. S. press played down or omitted a story of quiet, constructive achievement, so lacking in the ever welcome promise...
...August the islanders will commemorate their sesquicentennial, the 150th anniversary of the landing of Captain James Cook. From the small beginnings of civilization sown by that great navigator a flourishing community of more than 250,000 souls has developed. Eight of the nine islands are now inhabited...
Except for 1923, when eight billion square yards of cotton products were manufactured in the U. S. (two billion more than any year before or since), New England textile rajahs have sat on uneasy thrones. In 1924 many were forced to cut employees' wages 10%. In recent months, barely noticed amid prosperity literature, they have again made cuts. The Pepperell Manufacturing Co. (sheets & pillow cases) of Biddeford, Me., started it early in December with a 10% wage decrease. Quickly followed the Bates and Andrescoggin mills of Lewiston, Me,, and the Edwards mill of Augusta. Then the Amoskeag...
...Eighth Act. The son, grown potent, rows on his college eight. Watching from the expensive Evans yacht are Nina, her three men, and a flapper in love with her son. She hates the flapper about to take her son; jealously tries as did her own father to smash the match. Son wins the race. Stoutly successful, Sam dies of apoplexy...