Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France's Finance Minister Paul Reynaud, in his effort to stop the flow of gold from France to the U. S. In the process, Mannheimer's health broke, his weight dropping from 264 to 143 Ibs. But Paul Reynaud was grateful, served as best man when, only eight weeks ago, the dying financier surprised everyone by marrying a tall, dark, 21-year-old Brazilian girl named Marie Antoinette Reiss. The marriage was as doomed as Fritz Mannheimer's bank. The groom had a heart attack during the ceremony, was revived with two injections to get through...
...Eight Latin American countries declared war in 1917 and 1918: Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama. But practically speaking none of them took part except economically...
Last week the Cincinnati Reds were leading the National League by seven and a half games and the New York Yankees were leading the American League by eight. To most baseball fans this was not surprising. The majority of pre-season prognosticates had picked the Reds and Yankees as favorites in the 1939 pennant race. What was surprising were the names of the two pitchers who had so far been the push that put them in front: Bucky Walters and Atley Donald...
...drowned a seaman, Vim finished 37 minutes ahead of Tomahawk, but was disqualified for crowding Sopwith's sloop at the start. In the second race, Vim beat Tomahawk by 28 seconds, in the third by seven minutes, in the fourth by 51 seconds, in the fifth by eight minutes. When the flags came down at sunset on the last day of Cowes Week, Vanderbilt and his Vim were awarded the International Challenge Cup, No. 1 trophy of England's No. 1 regatta...
...whale oil competes in a small way with domestic oils and fats in soap making. The whalers sponsored an amendment postponing the excise for five years. Last week Congress adjourned without acting on it. To Whaler Isbrandtsen that meant: 1) buying a fleet of killer ships (estimated cost of eight if U. S. built: $3,200,000); or 2) taking a chance that Congress would pass the amendment next session; or 3) disbanding his company and virtually ending the U. S. revival of whaling...