Word: eight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brazilians, do $427 million worth of local business with Brazilian suppliers, pay $77 million in taxes. U.S. capital is helping Brazil develop by making trucks, tires, electricity and electrical equipment, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, business machines. ¶In the defense field, the U.S. has provided two cruisers, four destroyers, eight destroyer escorts, two submarines, with more destroyers to be delivered...
...Kans. She had just been waited on by the newest of the store's dozen saleswomen: temporarily retired Cinemactress Gene Tierney, 38, off and on for several years a voluntary patient in private mental hospitals. Now an outpatient in Topeka's famed Menninger Clinic, where she spent eight months last year' Gene would not discuss her courageous venture in occupational therapy. But her boss allowed: "She's doing a beautiful job. And she certainly knows clothes...
...finals, Lehner met 240-lb. Blasius Glatz of Garmisch. Both men had heavily bandaged middle fingers, but neither was feeling much pain after downing eight Mass (two-quart steins) of beer during the long afternoon. For 25 seconds they grunted on even terms. Then Lehner, his face contorted like a gargoyle's, inexorably forced Glatz's fist over the line, rose to declare: "I'm blessedly glad that I've won today." With that the big brass band oompahed into the Fingerhackln Hymn...
More than half the money ($11.2 million) is earmarked for improving faculties at eight of the schools; it will pay for raising key professors to senior rank, financing faculty loans and summer fellowships, will set up 15 new professorships and help lure top engineers into teaching. The rest of the money goes into improving curriculums, notably for new programs (at Case, U.C.L.A.) that concentrate on design as a basic engineering discipline. Biggest beneficiary: M.I.T. ($9,275,000), now developing a curriculum focused on science-core courses that cut across traditional departmental lines. Ford thus hopes, explained Foundation President Henry...
Filtered Down. In Hong Kong, taken to court by his wife for not making his $10-a-month support payments. Ng Kin-Cheung complained that he could not afford them because he had a concubine and eight children to support, and bought cigarettes with what money was left, was ordered by the judge to cut down on smoking...