Word: ib
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Australia came a story of two large creatures. One was an old mining prospector called ''Big Jim," 6 ft. 8 in., 250 Ib. "Fossicking" for opals on the Stuart Range of Central Australia,* he heard a peculiar sound. Looking up he beheld an enormous reptilian beast close ahead of him. Big Jim snatched up some rocks, slung them at the creature. It lashed its tail and charged, uttering a roar which sounded to Big Jim like the mingled bark of a dog and the growl of a lion...
...grew some 14,250,000 bales of which less than half found a market. To a carry-over of 9,000,000 bales the South this year is adding a crop of more than 15,000,000 bales. It is this glut of cotton, selling for about 6¢ per Ib. and far outrunning world consumption, which last week agitated not only the South but also the Federal Government and foreign countries...
...lawmakers of Texas turn traitor." boomed the Long voice out of the loudspeakers, "and fail to prohibit cotton on Texas farms, the price of your crop will fall to 2¢ per Ib. next year. How do you vote on the cotton holiday plan...
...Harvard School of Public Health three years ago invented the Drinker Respirator, at the suggestion of Consolidated Gas Co. of New York City. The gas company wanted a device to resuscitate asphyxiated persons. The Drinker machine does that (TIME, Sept. 8, 1930). It is a metal box weighing 700 Ib. A person unable to breathe voluntarily is sealed in the chamber, all except his head. An electric pump creates a mild, interrupted vacuum in the sealed box. The vacuum is sufficient to pull up the victim's chest. That action pulls air into his lungs through his mouth which...
Each plane can carry 440 Ib. of mail, but capacity loads are rare. For the special service, letters should be addressed...