Word: ib
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White Horse, last week, 100 barrels of old crankcase oil and 1,000 Ib. of lampblack were unloaded for Capt. Wheeler. This year he has a tractor and a pressure spray to paint with...
...Kips Bay, Manhattan, is the largest power plant of its kind in the world. Here four boilers each use 15 tons of coal an hour, generating steam at 285-lb pressure. This is then passed through reducing valves to street mains which carry it at as high as .165 Ib. Further reducing valves can give it to consumers at any pressure they want. The system's capacity is 4,500,000 Ib. of steam an hour. Its yearly figures reach large numbers, may be summed up as 600,000 tons of coal burned to furnish...
...January the Senate voted 4840-38 not to raise the duty on sugar as proposed by the Finance Committee. Last week when Senator Smoot offered an individual amendment to increase the world sugar rate from 2.20¢ per Ib. to 2.50¢ (Cuban: 1.76¢ to 2¢), the Senate reversed its position and adopted 47-10-39 the Smoot Amendment. Reason: legislative trading. Washington's Senators Jones and Dill, for instance, reversed themselves to get a lumber duty. Oklahoma's Senators Pine and Thomas did likewise to get an oil duty. Arizona's Ashurst and Hayden switched for a long...
...Schoenhair who, flying Barling and Lockheed Vega ships, respectively set new world records for altitude and speed with weight (TIME, March 10). Last week Pilot Sergievsky, who like his employer, Igor Sikorsky, is a naturalized U. S. citizen, filled a Sikorsky seaplane with two long tons (4,409.24 Ib.) of "pay load" and climbed with it to a height of 19,500 feet over North Beach, Long Island. The old altitude record for two-ton seaplanes was 15,837 ft. The significance: the U. S. is catching up with Europe in development of high-climbing, load-carrying seaplanes, essential...
...arms as he capered about, pretending they were women he was dancing with, drank 15 bottles of ginger ale, snapping the tin caps off with his fingernails. Next day after a walk he entered the hotel, hurried toward a crowded elevator. "One more," said the starter. Camera (269½ Ib.) got in. The elevator would not move...