Word: ib
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...White Plains, N. Y., Mrs. Robert G. Mitchell set out to divorce her husband. Charge: his scheme to sell his two large automobiles and buy a Baby Austin constituted cruelty. Mrs. Mitchell weighs 230 Ib...
Copper; 9½ Cents. When copper had tumbled to 14? per Ib. last spring, M. Fernand Pisart, managing director of Societie Generale des Minerals of Brussels, potent marketer of African copper, arrived in Manhattan (TIME, May 5). Roundly was it hinted then that all copper countries would cooperate, the price be held. Last week, just after copper had dropped to a new low of 9½?, a level not witnessed since 1895, it was disclosed that once again M. Pisart would visit the U. S. Again it is hoped that his arrival may mean an agreement to curtail African production...
Elaborately wrought, encrusted with 17th Century Portuguese ornamentation, it bears proudly the arms of the ten-year-old Portuguese Republic. Weight : 6 Ib. Mate rial: silver plate. Nature: inkstand...
...Dean Smith, crack pilot of National Air Transport's New York-Cleveland mail run, took leave of absence two years ago to go to Antarctica with Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd. Fortnight ago he got his old job back. Last week he took off from Cleveland with 700 Ib. of mail, rode a tail wind over the Alleghenies and into Newark Airport (412 mi.) in 2 hr. 51 min.-a new record...
National Electric is a $30,000,000 company, sells a practically complete line of wires and cables and wiring devices. Its productive capacity is in excess of 200,-000,000 Ib. of fabricated copper and 150,000 tons of steel annually. Some of its trade-names are Sheradnct, ABC, Nepco, Habirshaw...