Word: eight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Iowa, Democratic gains extended to the House, e.g., onetime Young Democrats National President Neal E. Smith defeated eight-term Republican Paul Cunningham, whose past pluralities had been dropping and who had lost important labor support...
...Screen Extras Guild reports that some producers of westerns are chiseling on their cowboys by taking them off their hosses too often and photographing them on foot. Cause of the beef: filmland cowpokes get $29.04 per eight-hour day in the saddle, only...
...half over, viewers are likely to wonder why CBS is not putting other Friars Club dinners on the air. Fact is, CBS planned on doing just that. After seeing the Sullivan pilot film, the Texas Co. was all set to pay $4,500,000 for a package that included eight similar shows, but backed out at the last minute. High-octane operators were disturbed, so the story goes, over a brief, dull speech by New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits in the last portion of the dinner. But Producer Nat (Bilko) Hiken, himself a Democrat, would brook...
School of No Knocks. In Milwaukee Ronald O. Huff drove into a filling station, told the attendant "never mind the the gas." pulled out a pistol and robbed him of $33, was caught by police after his car ran out of gas eight blocks away...
...jobs. When the Portland (Me.) Copper & Tank Works needed a machine that would rapidly drill 160 evenly spaced holes in different parts, yet assure their exact alignment in the afterburner of a General Electric J-79 jet engine, the company called on Elox. They worked out a machine, an eight-headed monster that can quickly and automatically drill dozens of combinations of holes. Said Engineer Clifford B. Smith of Portland Copper & Tank: "Elox's limits are only the limits of an engineer's imagination...