Word: ib
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William ("Young") Stribling (188 Ib.) of Georgia: a fight (billed as "World's Heavyweight Championship") with Phil Scott, 206-lb. Britisher; in the second round, by a knockout, after Scott had been down for three counts of nine in the first round; in Wimbledon stadium, England...
...Amoskeag messenger boys now furnish their own bicycles; Amoskeag trucks, all except three, stay inside the plant walls to avoid the necessity for license plates. With costs at the rockiest of rock bottoms, Treasurer Dumaine has also modernized production and selling. The new rayon mill turned out 800,000 Ib. of rayon last year. Not without opposition has Treasurer Dumaine set Amoskeag on its feet again. Employes have grumbled against his rigid economies, as when last March the print-cloth workers voted 4-to-1 against accepting a 10% wage cut so that Amoskeag could get a big printcloth order...
...heavy for his class, Sammy Mandell, lightweight champion of the world since 1926, trained in sweaters under the July sun, dried out in steam baths. On the morning of his fight with Challenger Al Singer, last week in The Bronx, he weighed himself secretly, found he was 136 Ib. instead of 135 lb., put on thick clothes and ran around the Yankee Stadium until the pound came off. That evening, pallid and drawn, he came out of his corner cautiously to meet Singer, sturdy Bronx Semite. After a moment of tentative jabbing. Singer lashed out with a left hook...
...will use the pouch for valuable express shipments. One drawback to adoption of the bag by the Post Office is its weight?20 Ib. as compared to the present 6-lb. type...
...past year, 4,665 Ib. of air mail were destroyed by fire, while 7,715,587 Ib. were safely transported...