Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York. Approximately one movie a week; one dry cleaning yearly for each of two coats and twelve for dresses; four tooth brushes; eight haircuts; six finger waves; three permanents in two years; eight visits to swimming pools; 36 visits to bowling alleys; "candy, sodas, cigarets" 30? per week...
Franco, whose own offensive has been eight weeks delayed, apparently had other troubles to contend with. All week he kept the French and Portuguese frontiers tight shut, but rumors continued to leak through: A "vast conspiracy by foreign elements" had threatened the lives of Franco & several of his officers and a large amount of cash had been stolen from the Rightist treasury at Salamanca...
...which the Treasury did not consider bona fide. Mr. Mellon retorted that he had overpaid the Treasury some $139,000 and charged political persecution. A Pittsburgh grand jury refused to indict him. During the three years the case dragged along before the 15-man Board of Tax Appeals, eight changes in membership occurred and 10,350 pages of testimony were presented. Mr. Mellon, who spent five days on the stand in Washington in the spring...
...wants from the eight leading U. S. firms that build big airplanes a machine delivered within three years that will fly 5,000 mi. non-stop at 200 m.p.h. at altitudes up to 20,000 ft. and carry a payload of 25,000 Ib. in which is included full day and night accommodation for 100 passengers, crew of 16, mail, baggage and express. Six months from now if Colonel Lindbergh and P. A. A. are still interested, $35,000 will be allotted to cover the cost to the builders of further estimates. As nothing a third the size has ever...
...Last year one man with syphilis and eight with gonorrhea came to the hygiene department for help...