Word: ib
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cattlemen's Association, he charged that the Army & Navy were buying their beef from Australia and New Zealand to supply outposts in the Philippines, Hawaii, the Canal Zone. It was claimed that a city of 100,000 could subsist on these foreign meat purchases, which exceeded 6,500,000 Ib. per year. Other provender which the Army & Navy have been buying in part abroad included beans, cereals, dairy products. The Cal- ifornia Cattlemen's Association pointed out that Hawaiian beef was being dumped on the Pacific coast, adding to the surplus and depressing prices, because the Army & Navy insisted upon...
...Moscow today the current series of "food books" allows a housewife to purchase for each and every member of her family at the Co-operative 25 Ib. of potatoes per month, plus 15 Ib. of "other vegetables...
With the end of the season (July 31) fast nearing, cotton experts last week were busy examining facts & figures, trying to discover the niche which the year 1930 would take between the high of 1920 (average weekly price at New Orleans of spot cotton per Ib.: 33.05?) and the low of 1915 (average price per Ib.: 9.60?). Cotton (spot) last week on the New Orleans exchange was lowest for the year, reaching 12.36?, slightly more than half a cent lower than the week before...
...Choice steers weighing 1,308 Ib. sold in Chicago...
Size?lack of it?is the distinguishing Austin feature. A tall owner (6 ft. 3 in. or more) lying under the car to tinker with its vitals would extend from wheel to wheel; a large horse (over 1,130 Ib.) would have a weight advantage in a collision. The full car length is 10 ft., width 4 ft. 4 in. Slipping easily through traffic, turning on a 16-ft. radius, parked wherever ten feet of parking space are available, the Austin offers obvious advantages with respect to handling in heavy traffic. Its sponsors also maintain that it will...