Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Primary season reached a peak this fortnight, with ten States going to the polls within eight days. In none except Tennessee (see p. 13) was heat generated equal to Kentucky's. The source of Kentucky's heat was a pitcher of ice water. For the closing hours of the race between Governor "Happy" Chandler and Majority Leader "Dear Alben" Barkley for the latter's Senate seat were enlivened by the "poisoning" of Candidate Chandler (TIME...
...under the skin of ten dogs with various types of spontaneous tumors produced "softening of the tumors in all dogs . . . except one. . . . Following periods of softening and draining of clear fluid, the tumors as a rule . . . gradually disappeared." Especially elated were Scientists Strong & Whitney over the recovery of two eight-year-old bitches with advanced cancer of the breast, one a cocker spaniel, the other a Scottish terrier...
...week with 15 hr. of duty and twelve of work in any 24. Last week, pointing out that the Motor Carriers Act was designed for safety reasons, not for "economic or social ends," the ICC. clung to the 60-hr. week but specified that there be at least eight hours off duty in every 24 and immediate relief from duty after every ten hours. Effective date: October 1. ¶ Bought some $8,000,000 worth of men's and boys' clothing, first batch under the $10,000,000 kitty set aside by WPA simultaneously to lance the clotted...
...three years Lufthansa pilots have flown the North Atlantic as cool as cream: they made eight flights in 1936, 14 in 1937, and this year they will make 28, two a week, with the Nordmeer, Nordwind and Nordstern, all Hamburg Ha. 1395 with four Diesel engines, a catapult start, and a payload of only 880 Ib. Lufthansa would like to start flying mail any day now, but it has been allowed to use Pan American's sea base at Port Washington only if it waits till Pan American can match it flight for flight...
...from Utica, N. Y. to Chicago (694 miles) 89?; 2) from Hattiesburg, Miss, to Chicago (814 miles) $1.06, from Lewiston, Me. to Detroit (813 miles) 96?; 3) from Knoxville, Tenn. to Indianapolis (377 miles) 78?, from Syracuse, N. Y. to Detroit (378 miles) 67?. *In a study of eight industries published four months ago, the National Industrial Conference Board found that wage scales in the South are substantially below the East and West even with lower living costs taken into consideration. According to the study, the average Southern cotton mill worker gets a weekly wage of $15.52, compared...