Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...budget balance itself: in offering a nine billion dollar budget for fiscal 1940, he calculated that if the national income (now 60 billions) rises to 70 billions the Government's revenues will reach six billions; if the national income reaches 80 billions (as in 1929), revenues will reach eight billions; if the national income reaches 90 billions, revenues will reach 10.6 billions...
...last five years, came to $1,017,000,000 for fiscal 1939. For purely military uses. Franklin Roosevelt's regular budget last week included only $510,000,000 for the Army, but upped Navy $161,000,000 (mostly for starting two new battleships, two cruisers, eight destroyers, etc.) to a whopping $720,000,000. His big news on Rearmament was that he would this week ask Congress in a supplementary message for some $500,000,000 more. Biggest item: $300,000,000 for 3,500 to 4,000 new Army planes, jumping the total in prospect...
...last week also obtained a degree of freedom. The family of Gangster Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone paid to the U. S. $37,692.29 on his bill of $50,000 in fines and $7,692.29 court costs for the offense of income tax evasion, for which he has served six years, eight months of a ten-year sentence, since 1934 in rock-grim Alcatraz...
Shoved off the Black Hawks bench because his 1938 world champions were in fourth place, with only eight victories in 21 games this season (a record that still was better than the Hawks had last year at this time), short, squat Bill Stewart was replaced by two men: his crack forward, Paul Thompson (brother of famed Goalie Tiny Thompson of the Detroit Red Wings), and a onetime Hawk named Carl Voss...
Zaza (Paramount). This ancient tearjerker, about a French cancan dancer whose fun is spoilt when she learns that her lover is married, has a noteworthy history. It was first produced in Paris in 1890, as a vehicle for Gabrielle Réjane. Eight years later, David Belasco used it to further the fabulous career of red-headed Mrs. Leslie Carter. In 1920, Zaza became an opera for Geraldine Farrar. In 1923, Gloria Swanson was Zaza in a silent picture. A favorite item in the repertory of stock-company leading ladies the world over, Zaza has been running off & on ever...