Word: ib
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...increase of 2? per 100 Ib. would be permitted on shipments of all other commodities, except noted exemptions, including freight of less than carload lots...
...upping of 1? per 100 Ib. was suggested for: cottonseed meal & cake, certain agricultural products, dried fruits, oranges, lemons, melons, resin, turpentine, refined fuel and road oils, cement, brick, lime, ice, fertilizers...
Mary Fontanna of Caruthers, Calif., thrice winner of the Pacific coast championship. She drew 146.1 Ib. in ten 3-min periods. The race was nip-&-tuck; it was only by her decimal fraction that Mary Fontanna beat Gloria Miller of Pacific...
...event attracted more interest than the competition between the big Holsteins. Judged grand champion bull was a tremendous black-&-white beast named Man o' War XXX. He weighed 2,500 Ib., was priced by his owner-Ed Hofland of Menomonie. Wis.-at $12,500. With imperious, melancholy eye, Man o' War XXX watched a mere stripling weighing less than a ton and named Sir Triune Pansy null win the 12 mo.-18 mo. class...
...whom she had been living since 1917 in the Herald Square Hotel, an antiquated hostelry near Fifth Avenue. Now he had her declared incompetent, was himself appointed guardian. Aged 93, nearly blind, nearly deaf, Mrs. Wood had not ventured from her room since 1927. She was wasted to 70 Ib. on a diet consisting almost solely of eggs and coffee cooked by herself. She had hallucinations that her nose grew out of her forehead and that her ears overtopped her head. But she still had her money-great wads of it-tucked away in corners of the disorderly room which...