Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bright new stores have appeared amid the ruins of West German cities; rings of huge sausages festoon the show windows of butcher shops. Even the sidewalk vendor of frankfurters has reappeared in Frankfurt. West German industrial production stands at 87% of the 1936 level, steel output has soared to nine million tons a year. But the anniversary triumph requires a damper of caution. West Germany is beset by some alarming economic difficulties...
Congress made no educational provision at all for nine-year-old Grafton Dulany Hanson, the first Capitol page, who was appointed during Jackson's Administration by both Henry Clay and Daniel Webster. After the Civil War, a bewhiskered, one-armed tyrant, remembered only as "Captain White," was enthroned over the pages. Captain White had a singular outlook on education: martial spirit, he felt, was everything. So he marched the pages around & around the House cloakrooms in close-order drill until they were dead tired and fighting mad.* After Captain White's time, a loose system of private tutoring...
...Neither Claire nor L.M., a coexecutor, share in their father's estate. The bulk, $430,000, will go to the Bank of America-Giannini Foundation, an educational fund for employees of the bank and other Giannini business connections. Various other charities will get $41,000, nine individuals $1,000 apiece...
...Nine years ago, James Street published the first of his series of novels of the Dabneys, Oh, Promised Land. The first book was 816 pages long, the next, Tap Roots, 593 pages, the third, By Valor and Arms, 538 pages. They told the story...
Died. Sir James Purves-Stewart, 79, neurologist, author of the standard text Diagnosis of Nervous Diseases (nine editions, four translations); in London. An advocate of euthanasia, Sir James hinted in his autobiography (Sands of Time, 1939) that at the request of a mortally ill friend he had hastened her death...