Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five more rounds, Charles covered up while Marciano plodded forward with the clumsy, rugged power of a reformed streetfighter. In the sixth, Charles battled back briefly, bloodied Marciano's broad nose. In the eighth, he opened a small cut over the champion's left eye. Then he made his mistake. Stepping away from a clumsy left hook, he dropped his own protecting left hand. Rocky crossed with a roundhouse right to the jaw. Limp and empty-eyed, Charles sagged to the canvas. He was up at the count of four. Rocky was all over him, pumping those stubby...
...Steel dropped from first place to third; Standard Oil (later Jersey Standard) moved up from second to first. Most swings were much wider. Sears, Roebuck rose from 42nd to 13th, Western Electric from 51st to 14th and Texas Co. from 87th to sixth, while Pullman Co. dropped from eighth to 81st, Singer Manufacturing from 13th to 79th and Pittsburgh Coal (now Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal) from 15th to 94th. Five companies among the first ten on the 1948 list (General Motors, second; Standard Oil of Indiana, fourth; Socony-Vacuum Oil, fifth; Du Pont, eighth; Ford Motor Co., tenth) did not even...
...Units of the Eighth Army's 37th Preventive Medicine Group left Korea to supply skilled manpower in flood areas. tj The U.S. Army rustled up 250,000 Ibs. of powdered milk in Japan...
...fellow who ended his formal schooling after the eighth grade, Harry M. (for Mathias) Hoxsey, 52, has made quite a name for himself in the world of medicine. His formula for success: a mixture of roots, water and licorice, labeled Hoxsey Tonic and sold in 16-oz. bottles to thousands as a remedy for cancer...
Hunched on the eastern shoulder of Manhattan, the grimy crest of Coogan's Bluff glowers across the Harlem River toward The Bronx. All day, traffic snarls past its littered slopes. Torn newspapers rustle in the limp breeze that swirls along the dirty asphalt of Eighth Avenue; street urchins scuffle in the dust and cadge quarters under the rusty shade of the elevated tracks...