Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chief King also announced that 200 more parking meters will soon be installed in the Cambridge area, bringing the total to 745. During nine months Cambridge parking before have crossed a total of $28,000 in nickels and pennies...
...military court of nine Air Force officers used up 340 gallons of gasoline on a round-trip flight from San Antonio to Houston, where they convicted a sergeant of the theft of five gallons of gasoline...
...height of Dizzy's fame, for $185,000 (the Cubs bought a pitcher with a bad arm). Sam Breadon sold baseball heroes as he also sold Pierce-Arrows, and the fertile Cardinal "farm system" which Vice President Branch Rickey built for him produced new-model heroes who won nine National League pennants. St. Louis thought of Sam as a skinflint horse-trader...
...Front First. Back at Bay Meadows last week, the wrinkled-faced little jockey won eight races, then went down south of the border to win three more on Sunday. That made his score for the season 293, nine more than Steve Brooks. Longden did not have the power of an Eddie Arcaro (who sometimes looks as if he gets off and lifts a horse across the finish) or Earl Sande's rare judgment of pace. But people liked to bet on his horses because they got a run for their money. Besides a high reputation for honesty...
...Chicago last winter (TIME, Feb. 10). She had offered herself to the Met, passed muster at an audition and was launched without fanfare. She was somewhat dumpy of figure, but the audience soon forgave that: she could act and she could sing, with fire and with control. Of nine debuts so far, hers was the only unqualified success...