Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eurich's forecast: "Barring war or a recurring depression, present college graduates can reasonably expect to earn between $2,000 and $3,000 eight years after graduation...
...Empire mast agreed with New York Times London Bureau Manager Ferdinand Kuhn Jr. that "Mr. Chamberlain won one of his easiest victories. . . . [His] majority of 207 tonight was far bigger than his margin of 162 in the vote of confidence that followed Mr. Eden's resignation eight months...
Last week London's renewed interest in many-minded Pablo Picasso was whetted by a big, swank show of paintings from the School of Paris at the spacious old Lefevre Galleries off St. James's Square. Eight Picassos of different periods (he has had eight so far: Realist, Toulouse-Lautrec, Blue, Rose, African, Cubistic, Neo-Classical and Surrealistic) were surrounded by canvases by Bauchant, Bonnard, Braque, Dali, Derain, Dufresne, Dufy, La Fresnaye, Leger, Lurçat, Matisse, Miro, Modigliani, Pascin, Redon, Rousseau, Rouault, Segonzac, Soutine, Utrillo, Vuillard...
...graduates found as many jobs as before Depression. But they found salaries lower. Men averaged only $1,350 the first year out of college in 1936. Eight years after their graduation, salaries of 28 men averaged $2,600. Their salaries were probably higher, however, than those of their non-college contemporaries, for a much larger proportion of employed college men were in the professions or managerial jobs...
Next, Dayton's 1,300 teachers were asked to work without pay until money was found. Having already given up $2,500 each on account of shortened school terms in the past eight years, the teachers refused...