Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This worried Patriot Lopez, and he decided then & there that something must be done to make the national anthem more singable. Crux of the problem was to reduce its twelve-note range to something more like the average popular tune's eight notes. Originally designed to show off lusty tenors and rumbling bassos,* the tune's high & low notes squeaked and croaked when essayed by snack-fed debutantes and their escorts' whiskey tenors...
...bean-spilling, gardenia-loving Grover Whalen replied that the Fair Corporation could not provide safe housing for a costly art exhibition unless it erected a permanent, fireproof building, unlike the temporary structures planned for the Fair. Instead of this, he said, arrangements were being made with the Metropolitan Museum (eight miles from the fair grounds) "and other like institutions" to hold exhibitions presumably like Chicago's. This message, which also appeared in the Post, was brought to the regular meeting between the artists' representatives and the Fair Board of Design. Mr. Manship's fellow artists were...
...Board of Governors would be reduced from the present 50 (42 exchange members and eight nonmember partners) to 32, of whom 15 would be members of the exchange, six nonmember partners of New York member houses, six from member firms not based in New York City, three representatives of the public, a president, a chairman...
Farmers National, the biggest grain-marketing co-operative in the U. S., is eight years old, has always been sickly. Last year it sold more than 66,000,000 bushels of grain for its members, but the only time it made any kind of profit was in 1931, when it was broker for the Grain Stabilization Corp., working for Herbert Hoover's Farm Board. A profit was such a remarkable thing for Farmers National that a few years later it was investigated by the Senate, with no particular result...
Loading their three boats (weighing four tons) on sledges, and carrying three and a half tons of food, the crew started over the ice, with Siberia 500 miles south of them. In eight days they traveled five and a half miles. But the ice had moved beneath them: they were 25 miles north of where they started. Three months later a few of the survivors, some blind, some mad, one so badly frozen his feet had fallen off, landed on the coast of Siberia where the Lena River pours into the Arctic. Of a party of 14 men, including Commander...