Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wheaties this morning.") has become a running gag among baseball players, but it sells. The biggest (230 Ibs.) and the best Wheaties' announcer, 37-year-old Arch McDonald from Arkansas, adds a lingo of his own. A baseball buff from boyhood and a baseball announcer for the last eight seasons, Arch McDonald has the job of covering the home games of the World Champion Yankees and the Giants this season over WABC. He will collect a salary of $25,000, will broadcast in turn for Wheaties, Mobiloil and Mobilgas, Ivory Soap...
Such human characteristics have endeared President Dennison to his 2,700 employes, who also thank him for progressive management. He was among the first industrialists to try employe representation, has only one vote on a management board consisting of eight employes and himself. He has written several sound books on management, has long sponsored a system of unemployment insurance...
...rats. To one rat she fed milk, whole wheat grains; to another, soda pop, salt pork, coffee. The first rat grew plump and healthy; the second even plumper. Suspecting a jokester, Teacher Case hid one night to waylay him. No one appeared, but in the morning she found eight baby rats in their soda-popped, pork-fed mother's cage...
...lobby General Buckner, Confederate hero and Chicago real-estate speculator, smoked his corncob pipe and fought the reformers. At the Music Hall, 43-year-old William Goebel, ranked by Leighton as the greatest field general among U. S. political reformers, won the Democratic nomination for Governor after an eight-day fight; at the State House in Frankfort eight months later he was shot...
...literary career of heavy-jowled, bearded, 48-year-old Elliot Paul might be pointed as moral for expatriates. Living in Europe most of the time since 1925, he has published eight books; all except one dealt with Americans. But the only success among them was the one with foreign characters: The Life and Death of a Spanish Town, which told the tragic story of Santa Eulalia, where Elliot Paul lived from 1931 until his last-minute departure aboard a German cruiser...