Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...park streets to traffic, drove moppets out of the park swimming pool. After a five-hour police search a park workman walked down into an underpass, found the bear holed up in a cool corner. Driven out by a machine-gun barrage, Too Tough reared up to her full eight feet, lunged at Zoo Superintendent Arnold J. Schaumann, stiffened as his rifle cracked four times...
...Kindled eight hours earlier, it had been fed by three cords of oak, 500 lb. of charcoal. When flames flickered over the glowing coals and a pyrometer recorded the heat at 1,220° F., light-footed Kuda Bux took three long hoppity steps through one pit, hopped out on solid ground. Later he tried it again, again achieved only half of what Fictioneer McNamee reported...
...heavy-footed Baptist farmer from Georgia who has never seen Tobacco Road, Acting Secretary Brown read Henry Wallace's note, then called on Mr. Mehl to report on a CEA survey of the first eight months of 1937. CEA had learned that 4,488, or 15%, of all commodity trading accounts were subject to powers of attorney; 70% of commodity trading houses had no such controlled accounts on their books and most holders of such controlled accounts had only one apiece; 23 persons controlled ten or more accounts apiece (a total of 9% of all controlled accounts...
...Thirty-eight years later the search for oil was renewed in earnest. The War had ended, leaving Europe's battle-torn fields producing only a third of their pre-War yield of beet-sugar. On the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange, Cuban cane-sugar soared from 6 to 22½? per pound...
...wild mountain country (during 1866 only 28 miles of track were laid), the rival Union Pacific was pushing rapidly across level plains, making fortunes for its owners. The partners were frantic but Crocker only added more Chinese, had them digging through rock so hard that four crews advanced only eight inches a day. When Stanford sent steam drilling equipment, Crocker refused to let it be tried...