Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past nine years, every time Columbia recorded a major work, it made two master records, salted one secretly away for LP (Long Playing) day. Last week, LP day arrived...
...80th Congress has overridden six Truman vetoes. Andrew Johnson was overridden 15 times in his one term, Franklin D. Roosevelt nine times in four terms...
...minutes past noon; the bright summer sky was partly covered with clouds. Flight 624 of United Air Lines, nine hours out of Los Angeles and two hours east of Chicago, was purring sweetly at 17,000 feet over ridge-ribbed central Pennsylvania. In his four-engined 300-m.p.h. DC-6, Veteran Pilot George Warner Jr. received his clearance from the traffic-control tower at New York City's La Guardia Field-meaning that he could let down gradually in the next 230 miles for his approach to New York...
Upton Sinclair's first play in nine years-Giant's Strength-had its 2 ½-hour debut at the hands of a Claremont, Calif. community playhouse. The critics who attended gave it "mixed notices" and confused ones. Some thought it was a sort of cheerful Skin of Our Teeth. Playwright Sinclair, who had stayed away from the rehearsals, stayed away from the opening...
...grim-faced Sewell Avery served the nine directors with an ultimatum: choose him or Norton. The directors, most of them old cronies of Avery who had seen him pull "Monkey Ward" out of the red and up to the second biggest merchandising business in the country, soon made their choice. The secretary of the company then phoned Norton at a Boston hotel; he "requested"-and got-Norton's resignation from his $100,000-a-year...