Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...precisely the difference between Jack Kearns and Jack Dempsey as prize-ring professionals. Without Manager Kearns to steer him, get him matches, plan his career, World's Champion Dempsey might have been just another pug. When Jim Farley crossed the continent to attend the Elks convention in Seattle eight years ago, Frank Roosevelt was just another Governor. When Jim Farley crossed again in 1936, it was to help his champion defend his title. When he started out once more last week in his non-rumpling alpaca traveling suit, Jim Farley was looking to see who could next be champion...
Last week Generalissimo Francisco Franco held at Barajas Field, some eight miles from Madrid, a final review for the German, Italian and Spanish airmen who fought on his side in the war. Wearing the blue-grey uniform of the Spanish Air Force, flanked by his usual mounted Moorish guards, El Caudillo took the salute from 1,500 Italians of the Littorio Legion, 5,000 Germans of the Condor Legion, 3,500 Spaniards. To 15 German and eight Italian aviators he awarded the Spanish military medal. In a speech characterized by Latin expansiveness, the Generalissimo predicted that Spain's present...
Last week, when the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows moved out of indoor arenas in Manhattan and Boston and pitched canvas in Long Island City, patrons of the Big Show sat in the first air-conditioned tent in circus history. Eight big trailers, each one a complete unit, pump ice-chilled air into the tent on hot days, warmed air on cold days...
...morning of the second day a dory containing five men from the Rose was picked up by the gasoline boat Amacitia off the coast of Nova Scotia. They had rowed 80 miles. A few minutes later, eight miles away, the Amacitia sighted another dory with four men from the Parker. One boat rowed all the way to land. Within 40 hours of the crash every last man had turned up, little the worse for wear. Captain Albert Hines of the Rose calculated that he and his own dory-mates had rowed 150 miles. The others didn't bother...
...Jones arranged for PWA to buy the road's run-down Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, unused for 15 years, for $2,000,000. Last November the Interstate Commerce Commission allowed Dan Willard to cut his fixed charges $11,000,000 a year by persuading the bondholders to accept an eight-year moratorium on interest payments. Last week Dan Willard personally appeared before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee to ask that Congress spare him the "personal disgrace" of a B. & O. bankruptcy by passing the Chandler Bill...