Word: eight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teams used telescopes ranging from eight to 48 inches in diameter, along with special equipment for running unified programs of observation by visual, photographic, and photoelectric techniques...
...still able to drench everything and everybody; certain facets of the construction were eleven days behind; and the actors had not yet even tested the stage. Failure seemed assured. At 7:30 p.m. on July 9 steamrollers were still operating and workmen were still driving stakes. But at eight o'clock the Governor and other prominent citizens arrived by boat for the formal ribbon-cutting dedication of the Metropolitan Boston Arts Center. And a half hour later, the Theatre lights went down and the Cambridge Drama Festival's inaugural performance got under way right on time...
BIGGEST ANTITRUST WAR of the year will be waged against food industry giants, for gobbling up smaller companies. FTC complains that supermarket chains have acquired 1,678 stores in past four years (v. only 560 stores in six years before that). Eight of FTC's largest merger cases involve groups of supermarkets, dairies or food processors. Among them: Kroger, National Tea, National Dairy, Borden, Pillsbury...
...Lofts. Highway 128 was built to be just a Boston bypass. But in the eight years since it opened, the roadway has lured 17 industrial parks and $137 million worth of new buildings. Into them have moved 227 companies employing 28,000 people...
Ford's manifesto was the $5 wage for an eight-hour day. Says Bruckberger: "I consider that what Henry Ford accomplished on January 1, 1914 contributed far more to the emancipation of workers than the October Revolution of 1917." Though...