Word: avoirdupoise
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If all the human fingers and toes in the world (somewhat more than 30 billion) were free electrons and were multiplied by a billion and again by a billion, all those electrons would weigh just about one ounce avoirdupois. And yet one of those almost weightless electrons, a negative charge...
Two members of the British House of Commons made an astounding insinuation last week-that the private Belgian concern, Union Miniere du Haut Katanga, which manufactures 90% of the world's radium under Belgian Government control, was restricting that valuable metal's production. The Belgian pitchblende mines, whence...
The value of gold is $20.6718 per troy ounce, and there are 14.583 troy ounces in an avoirdupois pound, so the pound is worth $301.45 and Mr. R's 135 pounds would be worth $40,696.56 "on a pair of accurate scales."
An avoirdupois pound of gold is worth $204.09. Mr. Rockefeller, at 135 pounds,* would balance $27,552.15 worth of gold on a pair of accurate scales. But it would take 37,710 times that sum of gold to balance the Rockefeller fortune and gifts.
Not that it has ever failed to give one one's money's worth, but this week the Metropolitan gives interest--huge interest--in that Cupid-like "Barnum of Bandland," the rotund Paul Whiteman. But it has long been our opinion that Paul not only possesses his share of avoirdupois...