Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reparations in German goods, which meant lifting the ceiling on German productive capacity. She would, in fact, let Germany turn out ten to twelve million tons of steel a year. Dulles recalled: "A little over a year ago, Marshal Sokolovsky said, 'To leave Germany an annual capacity of nine million tons of steel will mean war within a few years...
Midwest farmers have had poor luck with their pigs this spring. Sows that were counted on for litters of eight or nine farrowed only six or seven. And the young pigs were sickly, died like flies during the first week. Of Barke's expected 300 pigs, only 175 were farrowed, only 100 survived. Pork chops would be expensive next winter...
Financially, Farmer Barke and the rest of the nation's farmers were in clover. In Fairmont, where Barke does his shopping, merchants reported retail sales up 49% over last year. The Wall Street Journal surveyed nine major agricultural areas, found that farm income for January and February had topped last year's by 25%. In California, farmers who used to buy cheap cars on credit were plunking down cash for Buicks and Chryslers. In Nebraska, a farmer's wife who used to lay out $5 every six months for a cotton dress walked out of an Omaha...
...Boulder City, nine miles west of the dam, was glum. Merchants, contemplating a quarter of a million dollars' worth of ash trays, sofa pillows and other knicknacks emblazoned "Souvenir of Boulder Dam," tried to decide what to do. They could get rid of them at a loss. But what if the next Congress were Democratic...
Konrad Bercovici, who had charged Charles Chaplin with copping the idea for The Great Dictator from him, didn't get the $6,450,000 he sued for, but he did all right. After nine days in court (during which Bercovici displayed a Bercovici script about dictators and Chaplin said he had never seen it), the novelist and the comic settled things by agreeing that 1) The Great Dictator was Chaplin's idea, and Chaplin had all rights to it; 2) Chaplin could have the movie rights to two Bercovici stories; and 3) Bercovici could have...