Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...performed in New York's Town and Carnegie Halls, appeared in the only one-man USO show overseas, recorded nine albums of ballads, and is currently on his third tour of the United States...
...took nine years of study and travel to enable Dyer-Bennett, born a cousin of thirteenth British baronet Swinnerton Dyer, to develop his skill in the long-lost art of minstrelsy. Last summer he established the Dyer-Bennett School of Minstrelsy in Aspen, Colorado...
Missing Territory. As winter set in, China's northeast (Manchuria) was more than nine-tenths gone already. The columns of Communist General Lin Piao were pulling back a few dozen li after a punishing six-week offensive there. The Communists had not attempted to storm cities like Mukden and Changchun. They had been satisfied with attrition and wreckage. Along 150 miles of Manchuria rail lines they had warped rails to uselessness over bonfires of railroad ties. They had carted away the Manchuria harvest, disrupted coal and electricity supplies. The winter of 1947-48 would be bitter in Mukden...
Expansion. The new restrictions were only temporary cures for the unhealthy gap between Canadian imports from the U.S. ($1½ billion in 1947's first nine months) and Canadian exports to the U.S. ($733 million in the same period). What about a permanent cure? Finance Minister Abbott had the beginnings of one. Under a new order-in-council, which will be shored up and clarified at the coming session of Canada's Parliament, the government is going to try to make a dream come true. The dream: a more highly industrialized Dominion that will make many...
...copy piled up alarmingly in the composing room of Marshall Field's tabloid Chicago Sun. Deadlines came & went, but the battery of Linotypes stood silent. The printers were holding a marathon "chapel meeting," and the union was in no rush to adjourn. When the Sun went to press, nine hours late, it was in makeshift dress: lacking type, it ran pages of photo-engraved typewriting...