Word: eights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the Class of '62 "was potentially the strongest in academic terms that had ever enrolled" at the College, a total of 50 students withdrew, 41 with unsatisfactory records. Only eight of these students, however, had PRL's in the bottom 10 per cent of the class, while 16 ranked above the median. Thirteen held scholarships from the College and "several others" had grants from other sources...
...shopmates when he put in a stint as a worker at the Gorky automobile plant in 1934; the fourth was a mysterious "N" who claimed to be his long-lost wife, described how Walter wooed her ("an inexperienced girl") with talk of "capitalist chains" and "bloodthirsty exploiters." After eight months of marriage, said she, "he said 'I am going to America.' He promised to write me but I knew it was a lie. He was a scoundrel." Without a smile, Reuther denied the whole thing...
...have lost $1.1 billion in wages; steel companies, $3.3 billion in sales; the Government, $710 million in taxes; the nation, 30.9 million tons of steel production. The Commerce Department estimated that the rate of the gross national product dropped $3.5 billion in the third quarter. An index of the eight key economic barometers fell farther in the first three months of the strike than during the first three months of the 1957 recession. The U.S. faced widespread shutdowns in industries that depend on the basic metal...
...ailing railroads. The New York Central reported a deficit for the third consecutive month, and a cut in nine months' earnings to 52? per share v. $1.56 per share at the end of June. The Pennsylvania had a $2.3 million loss in September that wiped out its eight months' profit and put the road $449,346 in the red for the first nine months. Other nine-month rail earnings: 1958 1959 New Haven $3,534,080 $7,362,154 (loss) (loss) Erie 5,487,565 5,191,812 (loss) (loss) Union Pacific 2.17 1.87 Oil company earnings...
...Cambridge fire chief, four engines, at least eight University policemen, and 12 firemen descended on Mather Hall of Leverett House at 10.10 p.m. Saturday night to extinguish a small blaze caused by a burning sofa...