Word: ib
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born. To Baron Jozippie Paucci, vaudeville midget (height 37 in.); and Margaret Lane, diving beauty (height 5 ft. 8 in.), his estranged wife: a daughter; in Memphis. Weight: 5 Ib. 11 oz. Said Baroness Paucci: "Yes, I love my husband. . . . That's why I married him. . . . We parted because we were jealous. . . . Women were always picking him up and telling him how cute...
...throne the Maharaja Jamsaheb of Nawanagar, Chancellor of the Chamber of Princes and champion cricketer of India, gave his weight in silver to the poor of his realm. Dressed in full ancestral armor and anointed with sacred water from the Himalayas, the Jamsaheb weighed in at 174 Ib. After the silver distribution, 20,000 poor were...
...year is Goliath IIs fifth in captivity, and as winter waned at his Florida quarters he began to grow listless, sluggish. He would not eat. His cavernous trumpetings became dismal, froggy croaks. Trainers, seeing the remaining half of a $10,000 investment shedding weight at the rate of 10 Ib. a day, called doctor after doctor, but no physician's hand could feel that flapping pulse, no stethoscope could reveal the disorder beneath a hide thick as a truck tire. Last week Goliath II still lay in Sarasota and the Circus went on without...
Born. To Gloria Swanson, 31, film actress, and Michael Farmer, 29, Irish sportsman; a daughter; in London. Weight: 7 Ib. 2 oz. Name: Michele Bridget. Said Actress Swanson: "I'm so excited I can hardly talk. ... It was all so sudden." She was illegally married Aug. 16 last year, was remarried in November after her divorce from her third husband, Marquis Henri de la Falaise de la Coudraye, became final...
...woes of the rubber industry are many and complicated. The decline in crude rubber to a new low of 3? per Ib. has caused many large inventory losses. Shipments of tires have fallen sharply. In 1931 total shipments were 6.7% below 1930, 27.9% below 1929. In January they were off 13.1% from January 1931. Problems of marketing have been complex, sales to chain stores and service stations being made at prices often considered unfair by independent dealers...