By 1945, Ford made 70% of all B-24s in two nine-hour shifts.

It also saves money on computers and software licensing fees by having its work stations in use 18 hours a day; employees work nine-hour shifts.

He explained that she was paid $2 a day for a nine-hour shift, six days a week.

Mr. McClung put in an eight-hour shift on Friday and a nine-hour shift on Saturday, wearing a jaunty green-and-white cap.

These cabs must be personally driven by the medallion owner for 210 nine-hour shifts per year, after which they can, if the driver chooses, be leased out.

Under the new contract, firefighters would be scheduled to work 2,142 hours each year, up from 2,088 hours, the equivalent of six nine-hour shifts.

He spent most of his brother's nine-hour shift, from 2 to 11 P.M., chatting with him at the plant.

Am I turning mean here, and is that a normal response to the end of a nine-hour shift?

Pay was $40 for a nine-hour shift, but the work was little more than guiding patrons to cramped wooden chairs arrayed in tight rows perpendicular to the stage.

Near the end of his nine-hour shift Sunday night, Mr. Lebron had collected $600, a disappointing drop from last year's usual daily take of $1,000.