Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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British cars, trucks and gasoline are already so heavily taxed that last year 8½% of the national revenue was taken directly from automotive Britons as such. Sir John soaked them further last week by raising the tax on gasoline from eight pence (16?) per gallon to ninepence (18?) Including the new tax, the British motorist will now pay about 39? for an imperial gallon of gas-equivalent to about 35½for what U. S. citizens call a gallon. Immediately this week British omnibus companies raised their fares, so that Sir John upped gasoline tax really "soaked everybody...
...same short period the Baltic Fleet, backbone of the Soviet Navy, has had three different commanders: Sivkov, Issakov, and now Levchenko. Eight grand figures of the Soviet armed forces signed their names as judges to the condemnation of Marshal Tukachevsky, and of these eight at least four had by last week been purged. A fifth, Goriachev, figures in Moscow as in "doubtful standing...
...luxurious Lincoln town car and chauffeur-annoy him. First of all, Welles insists, this has nothing to do with his Mercury triumphs; for years he has had these things by virtue of his radio earnings; and second, the Big House isn't such a big house (eight rooms and four nooks, $115 a month), the car is secondhand, and the chauffeur exists because Welles himself doesn't drive. Says he: "I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour-and the more frightened I get, the faster...
...Northern liberals, it smelled of too much brotherly love to some Southern diehards. Led by Virginia's Bishop Collins Denny (retired), these antiunionists pounded the racial angle for all it was worth. Stumping the South, 84-year-old Bishop Denny cried: "What are you going to do if eight or ten Negroes come and say, 'Here are our certificates, and we want to join your church?' There is no way to keep them out." Bishop Denny also argued against unity based upon Christ's words, There shall be one fold and one shepherd. Said he: "Certainly...
...Average sailfish caught is eight feet long, weighs 150 pounds. Nobody knows where they are born or much else about them...