Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fighting for money." The Loyalists took someone else. And ever since, Harold E. Dahl has been Peck's Bad Boy in Salamanca. Reason why he stays where he is definitely unwanted: he is even more definitely wanted in Los Angeles on charges of having passed eight bad checks...
...while charting the South China Sea, Britain's map-making ship Rifleman found a circle of sandy coral reefs, each about 500 yards by 300 and rising only eight feet above sea level. The British named the islands for an obscure whaling captain-and forgot them. In 1933, French sailors from the surveying ship Astrolabe and the dispatch vessel Alerte, finding a handful of Chinese living happily on the reefs on coconuts, bananas, sweet potatoes and succulent turtles, hoisted a French flag on each island, blew a bugle call, buried bottles containing a French claim to the islands...
...Foundation has set aside $100.000 for gambiae control in Brazil, and Foundation workers have already learned all the habits of the enemy. Gambiae are "domesticated insects." They breed prolifically, mature within eight days, frequent stagnant, sunlit puddles, prefer to nip their human victims indoors. In the infested parts of Brazil an anti-gambiae corps backed by the Rockefeller Foundation is being rushed into action...
...tremendous success. When Rogers and Astaire first danced together in Flying Down to Rio, movie producers were still apprehensive that audiences would not be enthusiastic about full-length dances on the screen. Rogers and Astaire light-footedly kicked that apprehension into a cocked hat, and in the process (eight pictures) have grossed a total of $18,000.000 for RKO. Irene Castle had her thousands of admirers, Ginger Rogers has her millions...
...Institute of Industrial Research. The process, sponsored and financed by Kroger Grocery & Baking Co., involves "hanging" the meat so that its enzymes may weaken and break-down the fibres and connective tissues that make meat tough. Ordinarily such hanging (to obtain a few very choice steaks) requires four to eight weeks under expensive cold-storage conditions. In the Mellon-Kroger process it is done in a few days at a temperature of 60°, a relative humidity of 90%. Molds and bacteria, which would spoil such warm, damp meat if left to themselves, are put out of action by ultraviolet...