Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Association of Motion Picture Exhibitors, has claimed that the result has been monopolization of the cinema industry to such an extent that independents could barely exist (TIME, June 7, 1937). The Department of Justice investigated, agreed. Hence last week's suit in Manhattan's Federal Court against eight of the major cinema companies,* 25 of their affiliates and 132 of their officers...
When Eula Herbert of Chacahoula, La. was eight years old her mother stopped lengthening her dresses. At 14, Eula was still the same size: height not quite four feet, weight 52 pounds. Then the Associated Catholic Charities sent the shy little dwarf to New Orleans Charity Hospital, where for two years she took large dally doses of the growth-stimulating hormones, thyroid and pituitary extract. Quick as a cornstalk Eula shot up. Last week she reached 59 inches, 92 pounds. Doctors thought they could boost her up another few inches but healthy Eula was content. Said she proudly, if incorrectly...
...eight: Paramount Pictures, Inc.; Loew's, Inc.; Irving Trust Co. as trustee in bankruptcy for Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp.; Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; Columbia Pictures Corp.; Universal Corp.; United Artists Corp...
...Franklin Roosevelt's "conviction that the South presents right now the nation's No. 1 economic problem-the nation's problem, not merely the South's." It is the conviction of eight Southern Governors that the chief barrier to the South's economic improvement is a system of freight-rate disparities which favor the North. Last week, before an Interstate Commerce Commission examiner in Buffalo, N. Y., the second battle in their campaign to remove these disparities came to an end. In Birmingham, Ala., three months ago, the South presented its side of the complex...
Then industrialization began to snowball in the South. In 1914, eight leading Southern cities had an estimated industrial production of $418,017,000; last year this figure had more than tripled under the influx of such industries as textiles and wood pulp, moving from the North to the South to take advantage of lower costs and nearness to raw materials...