Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bills will start coming off the presses on Nov. 1, but will not reach the public's hands until February (after a two-month's supply has been put in the Treasury reserve). Twelve bills will be printed on each sheet going through the presses, instead of eight as is the case with the present bills. Half of the bureau's 5,000 employes will be used in producing the new bills...
Charles P. Taft II, able 30-year-old son of Mr. Chief Justice William Howard Taft of the U. S. Supreme Court, has served almost eight months of a two-year term as prosecuting attorney of Hamilton County, Ohio. Last week, reporting to the Ohio Attorney General, he said: "The difficulty of investigation is perhaps the most serious in our entire system of criminal justice. There are not enough police properly to patrol the county and there are very few communities in the country where the training of police forces is adequate. . . . There are many cases ... in which the witnesses...
...cruiser of some 43,000 tons. The U. S. and Japan scrapped or converted into aircraft carriers several partially completed boats of this type; and the British were so fortuntate as to be allowed to keep their 41,200-ton battle-cruiser, H. M. S. Hood, a ship carrying eight 15-inch guns, and making a speed of 32 knots, as compared with somewhat over 21 for the Mutsu, Colorado & Nelson...
...spring day in 1888 a conservative-looking youth marched into the office of the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, got a job as a reporter. Eight years later he started to write editorials. In 1911 he was chief editorial writer. In 1922 he became editor...
Since that far-off day when "Willie" Hearst came to Manhattan his record has been one of astounding success in the field of publishing. He controls at least 25 newspapers, eight magazines, two press syndicates and film newsreels. His papers sell to over 3,000,000 people daily?or nearly 10% of the nation's total population...