Word: eight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nine, eight are printed in Urdu, the other in English. Seven are strictly one-man shows in which the proprietor hustles ads and copy, cribs items from the old newspapers arriving by train, cuts by hand the pothook stencils of the Urdu script. Then he makes the rounds of Quetta's three print shops, pursuing the lowest print rate of the week. Advertisers are rare, since Quettan merchants prefer to do all their pitching over a hookah at the bazaar, so the publisher must seek revenue from other sources. From Baluchistan's maliks (tribal chieftains), the shrewd editor...
TALLEST BUILDING west of Mississippi will be built by Humble Oil Co. in Houston. It will cost $32 million, rise 44 floors (604 ft.), eight floors higher than Dallas's Republic National Bank Building, now tallest...
Churchill admits that his Lark is not the ultimate. One fault: the six-cylinder model is underpowered (he is beefing it up). He is not afraid of the Big Three's forthcoming compact cars. "They will have six-cylinder compact cars, but we have an eight," says he. S.P. will add a 1960 Lark four-door station wagon and a convertible, but confidently will make no basic changes in style. Churchill is betting that the Big Three's entries will fan public interest in U.S. smaller cars, double the market to more than 20%. And he believes that...
...returned from vacation last February, he got a double shock. He heard reports that the firm's composing-room employees had been "molesting" women workers in the plant-patting them, whistling at them, and making gamy comments about what Brooklyn calls "the built." He also learned that the eight men had joined the International Typographical Union. They were all fired. Last week, in a tough yet tongue-in-cheek decision, a National Labor Relations Board trial examiner ruled that union organizing, not sex, was responsible for the firings, ordered the men reimbursed with lost pay. He also read Boss...
...pressed to decide by Sept. 30, when the lease arrangement expires, if he will raise the money to complete payment on the jets by a major refinancing of TWA or by other means. Whatever the choice, Hughes and TWA are in a far stronger position than they were eight months ago, when it looked as if Hughes might be forced to give up control of part of his holdings to raise money. Says Charlie Thomas: "The planes will be financed conventionally and soundly without Hughes's losing any significant control...