Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Muscovite workmen were busy last week behind the Kremlin's walls. Foreign correspondents, on a rare sightseeing trip, saw signs of a thoroughgoing restoration project.* The nine gilded, onion-shaped domes of the Cathedral of the Annunciation, stripped of their camouflage paint, shone in the October sun. At the nearby Cathedral of the Archangel (where the Tsars lie buried), and all over the Kremlin's 90 acres, roofs were being fixed and walls painted...
...Duke of Windsor, back in England for the first time since 1940, got an oldtime Glamor Boy's welcome as crowds of women (mostly middleaged) fought for a peek into his auto. The Duke went straight to his mother, Queen Mary, whom he had not seen for nine years; that night he dined with her, his brother the King and his sister the Princess Royal. Next day he visited the King for a 2½-hour heart-to-heart. Getting back in stride, he unlimbered his golf clubs, and made a tour of East End bombed areas...
...Paterson (N.J.) area, 6,000 textile workers closed 70 plants; 62,000 textile workers were out in nine states...
Born. To Frederick Bernard Snite Jr., 35, world-traveling infantile-paralysis victim who has spent most of the last nine years in an iron lung; and Teresa Larkin Snite, 31: their third child, third daughter; in Chicago. Weight...
...Porter packed manicuring sets and sold Christmas cards while she was in school. She once wanted to be an actress but decided it was "too unsteady." After graduating from high school she did nine years of clerical work for the National Society of Penal Information, finding jobs For ex-convicts. In 1930 she went to work as a stenographer in Standard's sales department...