Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon of the Tribuna attack, hooligans tore down the Soviet Embassy's shield. Moscow translated the incident into a "stoning" of the embassy, put Brazilian Ambassador Mario de Pimentel Brandão and his entourage of nine under hotel arrest. Only when the Rio Soviet Embassy staff of 32 were safely off for Montevideo would Pimentel & friends get exit visas...
...Flavor. In Weeks's nine years as editor, the Atlantic's circulation had climbed to a record 160,956. After years of losing money or just breaking even, it had made money from 1943 through 1946. But it had slipped into the red in its last fiscal year, chiefly because of heavy spending for promotion. It is continuing the spending, and "does not expect to turn the profit corner this year." Weeks knew that soaring paper and production costs might mean hard times ahead. But he hopes that the promotion splurge and the Atlantic's color...
...Trees. The Atlantic gets 40,000 manuscripts a year and the nine-man staff reads them all. (The G.B.S. piece came in "over the transom"-unsolicited.) Associate Editor Charles W. Morton helps Weeks develop new article ideas. They understand each other so well that conferences are as elliptical as shorthand. (Morton to Weeks: "Atomic bomb-Einstein." Weeks to Morton: "I'll call Swing...
...adviser to the local historical societies. He led a WPA expedition to look for lead marker plates, buried by the French in 1751 as claim to the land, and found two, just where he said they would be. The Greene County Historical Society thereupon appropriated $20,000 and worked nine years to put the Horn diaries and papers into a three-volume...
Complaints against maintenance are legion--the case of the nine dollar chair which is repaired for seven; the piano moved after the dance for twenty-five; or the spot on the wall which gets the room painted, at a cost resented whether high or low. All typical of the popular gripes, they are usually followed by charges of padding, graft, mismanagement and outright corruption. A closer study points to a different picture. The chair doubtless required several hours work by a skilled carpenter in addition o the time expended in transportation form the House or office to the maintenance building...