Word: ib
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from employment in gins, plow hands, cotton pickers, truck drivers, warehouses, cotton buyers of loss employment in gins, plow hands, cotton pickers, truck drivers, warehouses, cotton buyers. He knew that the South would miss the money its crop brings in - around $500,000,000 this year at 6? per Ib. - that some institutions, merchants, banks would suffer...
...tariff on any kind of literature coming into her borders. If she (or he) has I shall be like "the boy the calf ran over." If not. I rise to protest that it is tyrannical to make a poor prairie farmer who can get only 4 1/2? per Ib. for his wool pay $8 for TIME when a Californian who is protected by a 31? tariff can get the same publication...
...disappointed Monster Carnera, deprived of his first real chance to prove the much-ridiculed contention of his manager, Leon See, that Carnera is the greatest heavyweight fighter in history, a substitute for Sharkey was suggested: onetime (1927-29) Light-heavy weight Champion Tommy Loughran, whom Carnera outweighs by 80 Ib. Carnera declined to fight Loughran, said he would fight Sharkey or no one, roared words to the effect that Sharkey was afraid...
...himself as the most thoroughly publicized if not the ablest pugilist in history. By this time, everyone knows that he is 6 ft. 6½ in. tall; that his shoes are Size 20; that his walking stick on days when his managers expect him to be photographed, weighs 9 Ib.; that his neck is 20 in. around; that all other parts of his body, as is not usually the case with giants, are proportionately huge. For breakfast, when in training, Carnera eats two or three grapefruit, a dozen pieces of toast, two or three fish, a large steak, a bowl...
...apprenticeship to his father, worked in a cement factory at Nantes where he applied for French citizenship. Discharged from the factory, he joined an itinerant carnival, improved his muscles by wrestling with third-rate professionals, yokels in French villages. When the carnival disbanded, Monster Carnera bloated to 285 Ib. He was observed by a French pugilist, Paul Journée, who made friends with Carnera, telegraphed his onetime manager, Leon See, about the discovery. Manager See inspected Carnera, decided he was "a generosity of nature," took him to Paris to teach him how to fight...