Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preliminary estimates . . . called for appropriations to commence during the fiscal year 1939 two battleships, two light cruisers, eight destroyers and six submarines. Since that time world events have caused me growing concern. . . . The fact is that in the world as a whole many nations are not only continuing but are enlarging their armament programs. I have used every conceivable effort to stop this trend and to work toward a decrease of armaments. Facts, nevertheless, are facts. and the United States must recognize them. Will you, therefore, be good enough to inform the subcommittee on Naval Appropriations that after the next...
...Glib Jack Morgan talked Los Angeles Nurse Elsie Berdan into joining the party to take care of his wife. Sportsman Faulding invited along one of his friends, stoutish Mrs. Gertrude Turner, who brought her 8-year-old son Robert. On the evening of December 20 the Aafje and its eight passengers cleared the San Pedro breakwater and scudded silently out into the Pacific...
Even more significant was the turnover among Mr. Stout's eight associate editors. On New Year's Day, Graeme Lorimer, George Horace's elder son and the last Lorimer left in the Curtis Publishing Co., resigned to continue writing-with his wife -stories like After Dark, which he recently sold to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for $25,000. He and his brother retain a small holding of Curtis stock.* Ironically, with Graeme Lorimer's eyes turned toward Hollywood, a fugitive from the film colony. Merritt Hulburd, will fill his vacancy on the Post. Merritt Hulburd, Graeme Lorimer...
Unwritten Recipe. Three Post editors spend one day each week in Manhattan interviewing writers, searching among book publishers' galleys and agents' piles of manuscripts for Post material. The rest of the week, from 9 to 5:15, all eight devote to reading and passing judgment on the 600 "first-class" manuscripts that come in each week from literary agents and to replying to some 90 letters apiece each day from inquiring, laudatory or abusive readers. It is an old Lorimer custom that no matter how trivial or routine the communication, it must get a personal reply from...
...dead or dying roots. At Princeton, Dr. White has an apparatus which keeps detached roots alive indefinitely by supplying them with nutrient fluid. When he attached glass tubes carrying columns of mercury to his tomato roots, the mercury went up until it indicated a pressure of more than eight atmospheres (125 Ib. per sq. in.), at which point the powerful roots broke his apparatus...