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Word: eights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about in rags. Last month within a few days more casts petitioned Actors' Equity Association to be allowed to take cuts than at any other time in Equity's history; and most of the shows, even on reduced expenses, had to fold. Smart money predicted that only eight of Broadway's 16 shows can. survive the summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Revelry by Night | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...Fair has hit most night spots as hard as the shows. Many night clubs smell of fresh paint, gleam with new chromium, prance with new legs, but the nocturnstiles are not clicking-while at the Fair such places as the French Pavilion, where the check for eight people may come to $90,. are jammed. Some of the entertainments which Manhattan's 135 night-club owners have put on for hoped-for Fair visitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Revelry by Night | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Rental charge for one Mémophone is $10.60 a year, plus an installation charge of 21? for each entry on the table. The French bureau of pharmaceutical manufacturers has leased 24 instruments, two big automobile companies eight and six instruments respectively. The Mémophone cuts down toll charges by eliminating wrong numbers due to slips of memory or the finger. The practical Frenchmen who are boosting the Mémophone have assembled statistics showing that 15% to 17% of all hand-dialed calls are wrong numbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Memophone | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...been, in recent years, one great object of U. S. electrical engineers. Six years ago Radio Engineer Benjamin Franklin Miessner patented an electronic piano, in which pickups and a loudspeaker do the work of a sounding board and make amateurs dynamic enough to bring in the neighbors. Today eight companies are licensed to make electronics. Last week big Radio Corporation of America entered this potentially large field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Voiced by RCA Victor | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...Star had been given the use of the Winnipeg Free Press's newsstands for the day. A special plane had left Minneapolis, 435 miles to the south, loaded down with copies of the early edition. Under an eight-column headline the Star played the story, written in advance, which it had worked so hard to promote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Quick, Warm Gesture | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

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