Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...living conditions in the Marianas. When he was hard-pressed he borrowed Seabees to help load bombs, and they liked it. Somehow the grim General made hard work attractive. Mechanics learned to make certain small parts whose lack had grounded planes. The General never said much-for him, a nine-word sentence is a monologue -but his men gladly toiled around the clock. The availability record of B-29s (i.e., the daily number ready to fly) rose almost to 70%, double what it had been...
...week's end the ministerial list (senior and junior) numbered 68. At least 23 of 30 senior appointees had held public office before, most of them in Parliament. Nine of them are ex-miners. Only two attended Eton, only 13 went to college. Their average age was 60-three years older than the Churchill Cabinet average and 20 years older than the new Labor M.P. average. Outstanding among the new appointments...
...statistical note for the Wolfboro Daily Bugle: Ernie Hyne's recent defection from the ranks of the bachelors brings our class average up to 19 percent, not quite the 60 per cent once predicted. Thus far there have been no announced contributions to the figure of "nine-tenths per family." Don't despair yet, Professor Hanson...
Some twelve million Britons had voted Labor Party candidates into 388 seats-224 more seats than they had had before the election and 101 more than they had held ever before in their history. The Conservatives had received some nine million votes and 193 seats...
...This week brought managerial news from the National League too: a nine-game losing streak catapulted Manager Bob Coleman of the seventh-place Boston Braves out of office, gave Coach Del Bissonette his chance...