Word: nines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy was already working out a thinning diet for itself. Navy Secretary John Sullivan announced that the Navy was closing down nine air stations (eight of them on the West Coast and in the Pacific) and laying up 72 vessels (only 15 of them major combat ships) to squeeze inside its budget. In doing so, the Navy was also shifting its weight around, from the Pacific to the Atlantic, where the Navy would add 30 new combat ships. But the Navy, already possessor of the mightiest aircraft carrier fleet in history, was still going ahead with the building...
...directors plan to install nine other handicraft shops besides their present carpentry shop. When their charges have attained the ability and maturity to fend for themselves, the directors will help them through the red tape needed to get working papers and a job. Both churches have ambitious plans for Adelheide. By May the Protestants expect to open a hospital that will accommodate 90 paralyzed children; the Catholics are planning to turn the Luftwaffe airport behind the village into a truck farm. The total population will eventually be 2,800, divided equally between the churches...
...Chicago's De Paul University. There, Coach Ray Meyer made him shadow-box and skip rope until Mikan panted: "What do you want, Coach, my blood?" Short, husky Coach Meyer is still hard to satisfy. Says he of Mikan: "He'd be great if he were nine inches smaller." His size sets Mike apart, even among pro basketball players. At home he requires a specially-made 7-ft. bed and an elongated reclining chair. His appetite is prodigious. He has occasionally been known to consume a dozen eggs at breakfast, polish off two steaks after a game...
...England's 26 studios, only nine were shooting films last week. Private financing had tightened up, even for Korda and Rank. At least 1,000 employees had been laid off in recent months, and another 500 had warning notices that they might be sacked soon. Last week heads of three big movie unions urged the government to help stem the firings and to grant the producers' demand for a rebate on its 40% admissions...
...from Maine fared no better with their epees. Giles Constable, Captain Johnny Agar, and Ken Yates had little trouble picking up three touches three times apiece to add another nine points to the Crimson tally...