Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Army pigeoneers-all nine of them-were angered by the news. There was not one chickenhearted, people-toed electronics messenger, they snorted, which could match the feats of wartime homing pigeons. Moreover, they said, electronic communications equipment can be jammed by the enemy; there are times and places, too, where such equipment cannot be used, e.g., in thick jungle areas, where wire-stringing is impractical...
...Greco. The Santo Domingo Adoration was allowed to become so begrimed under centuries of neglect that few art historians noted or reproduced it. Last year the church, hard up to finance repairs, sold it to Madrid's Prado for $55,000. It took the Prado's experts nine months to clean and restore it. Today, the Adoration hangs in a place of honor in one of the Prado's newly inaugurated salons, fresh with all the unearthly radiance and splendor that El Greco's brushes originally imparted, and once again the permanent testament to his great...
...them back to raise capital and 2) bought Fairbanks, Morse stock for $45. But he thought both were good deals. Fairbanks, Morse stock now sells for $56, said he, and Penn-Texas is on solid financial ground, is not being pressed by the banks from which it borrowed, had nine-month earnings...
After President Ralph S. Damon died last January, Trans World Airlines began to lose altitude. Without his firm and skilled hand, the net profit dropped 96.9% in the first nine months to only $170,000, despite an 11% rise in operating revenue. Last week T.W.A. Owner Howard Hughes finally found the man he hopes will pull T.W.A. out of its dive: Carter Lane Burgess, 39, Assistant Secretary of Defense for manpower...
...score was also caused by the few field goals made, as each team connected only 13 times from the floor. Fouls were frequent, and free throws decisive. Despite Jordan's nine free throws, half his team's number, the varsity tallied one more, for the winning marker...