Word: ib
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan it was revealed that since last autumn Nikola Tesla, 80, eccentric, Lika-born electrical inventor, had been paying Western Union to send a messenger boy to the Public Library promenade twice daily, scatter 5 Ib. of corn for the pigeons...
Seven weeks and six days after it opened (TIME, March 22) in Manhattan, where 22,000 bowlers had bowled 37,675,584 Ib. of bowling balls 73,139 miles at 40,170 brand-new pins on 28 especially constructed alleys, the 37th annual American Bowling Congress last week finally drew to a close. Outstanding scores...
...entire world market, through its interests or the interests of its affiliates in foreign aluminum. Motive for this was alleged to be the company's desire to keep foreign prices high enough to discourage invasion of its U. S. preserve. Fifty years ago aluminum sold for $8 per Ib. Today it is 20?. Singled out by Attorney General Cummings was the fact that Alcoa hiked the price 1? last March just about the time it was reporting 1936 profits of $20,000,000 as against $9,500,000 the year before...
...prime the pump by public works. Now. he said, the situation was reversed. The durable goods industries were making more rapid progress than the consumer goods industries. The prices of their products were going up accordingly. For example, some mines can produce copper at 5?, or 6? a Ib, but copper was selling at 17?. And the price of steel was up $6 a ton. These prices, he intimated were too high, much more than covered increased labor costs, meant that a larger share of the national income was going into building factories and machines, a smaller share into wages...
Whether or not any oldtime panoramas were bigger, Artist Dufy's painting is the biggest something. Already 1,200 Ib. of oil and paint have been spread on 250 separate wooden panels to make a picture 195 ft. long, 30 ft. high which will be the central feature of the Palace of Electricity for the Paris Fair. Already arrangements have been made to remove all the panels and ship them to the U. S. as soon as the Paris Fair closes...