Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Texas 17 newspaper publishers, polled (at the Texas Daily Newspaper Association meeting in Dallas) on whether Ike could carry Texas again, voted nine no, eight yes. Those who felt that Texas still likes Ike in spite of the gas bill veto advanced a homey piece of logic to back their argument: Texas still has more gas consumers than gas producers...
...will only have a week in Washington before taking off on another of his periodical trips more than halfway around the world. He will be gone until March 21-will attend a SEATO meeting at Karachi and then in the last 10 days make one-day stops in nine other countries from India to Japan...
...World War II bomber veteran expresses the spirit of change as he tells of his new B-52, SAC's "Long Rifle." Says he: "Brother, this is the plane to end them all. It takes four railroad tank cars of fuel, flies at altitudes in excess of nine miles. It's as light as a feather to control, and yet it has a rudder four stories high, and it weighs 390,000 Ibs. at takeoff. I've got the power of 30 diesel locomotives out there on the wings." But had not he once described...
GUARANTEED ANNUAL WAGE will go into effect for 1,000,000 United Automobile Workers on June 1 as scheduled, now that nine states have okayed the plans to supplement state unemployment benefits. Workers can collect in Michigan, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Delaware, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida and California, but not in Ohio, which ruled the plan illegal...
...AEROTRAIN which missed its first date for revenue operations because coaches were too noisy and bumpy (TIME, Jan. 30), broke down on its maiden run with paying passengers aboard. While trying to clip 1½ hours off the Pennsy's nine-hour...