Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eight weeks Actors' Equity Association (actors' union) has attempted to impose its closed shop on Hollywood cinemactors (TIME, July...
...acquired Trumbull Steel Co. in February 1928. In April 1928 it got able Elmer T. McCleary to leave the vice-presidency of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and become its president. Soon earnings began a steady climb. The 1927 net had been about $3,000,000. The 1928 income (with eight months of Trumbull) was $4,642,000. The first six months of 1929 showed net profit of $6,140,435, almost four times the net for the first half of 1928. Able President McCleary is planning to spend $10,000,000 in plant improvements, has on hand unfilled orders...
Earth's atmosphere is only seven to eight miles thick. Aviators have been able to reach the top and hover there a few moments. Outside is the tenuous stratosphere, about 70 miles thick. Man has not entered that yet, although small balloons bearing measurements have done...
Rockets have already been used for motive power. A rocket car driven by Fritz von Opel attained 120 m. p. h. in eight seconds (TIME, June...
Prince Ibrahim of Egypt and a score of guests, including three women, swam about in nightclothes until rescued after the royal yacht Nazperwer (Beautiful Lady) had struck a rock off the foggy Norwegian coast near Trondhjem and sunk in eight minutes...