Word: eight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Idlewild Airport were "absolute chaos." United Air Lines flights were booked solidly for ten days in advance. National Airlines was flying 4,000 passengers daily-double its normal load-to and from Miami, some of them in the 707 jet that it has leased from Pan American. National leased eight other planes from such faraway carriers as Hawaiian Airlines, put employees on six-and seven-day weeks. National's President George ("Ted") Baker found the pressure so bad that he took off for three weeks' rest in Switzerland...
...reason for the spurt was Northwest's 15% jump in domestic passenger mileage, second highest increase in the industry (after Northeast, which rose 65% on the wings of its new Miami routes). Nyrop did it by selling off eight of the aged, unpressurized DC-3s in Northwest's fleet, bringing in 24 DC-6Bs and DC-7Cs in the past two years...
Candidates for the scholarships are selected on the basis of references, interviews, and college records in academic and extra-curricular activities. Two nominees from each state enter a regional competition, and from the eight regions thirty-two men are chosen...
Terms of the sale state that construction must start within eight months and be completed 12 months after the beginning of work. The city will receive $600 monthly during the building period to replace its usual parking meter returns...
Against New Hampshire in the play off for fifth place, the varsity again started slowly, and was behind, 32 to 23, at the half. Then, down 10 points with eight minutes remaining, the varsity rallied to take a slim lead two minutes from the finish. But the Wildcats came back to tie it up in the closing seconds...