Word: ib
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...SCHMA Niles Center, Ill. Notre Dame continues Knute Rockne's prescription for offsetting acidity caused by strenuous exercise, uses more than 200 Ib. of citrocarbonate a year. Principal ingredients: sodium & potassium bicarbonate...
...selling at 50? per lb. Last week it hit a ten-year high of 66⅓, despite the fact that the International Tin Committee threw the London market into confusion by suddenly upping second-quarter quotas from 100% to 110% of 1929 figures. Copper, which was 13? per Ib. a month ago, was boosted for the fourth time this year to 16?, while in London, where speculation in metals is now as wild as Wall Street's wildest days in stocks, copper soared above 17½?. So mad was the copper market that Business Pundit Bertie Charles Forbes quoted...
...attackers to move forward through a mustard-shelled area. Mustard was not introduced until 1917 and comprised less than 10% of the total gas shells fired in the War. Yet it accounted for 400,000 casualties, which was one-third of the total gas casualties. It took only 60 Ib. of mustard to produce one casualty, as against 230 Ib. of lung injurants and 500 Ib. of high explosive...
...Lewisite gas dropped on Berlin or Chicago would be enough to destroy all life in those cities." Chemical officers jumped on this statement as utter nonsense. Author Prentiss points out that to lay down any sort of effective (not lethal) contamination it would be necessary to deposit 10 Ib. of vesicant liquid on every...
Because the world's heavyweight boxing champion is supposed to be able to thrash any unarmed human, fights between big men often attract huge crowds which know nothing about prizefighting. Bouts between lightweights (135 Ib.) appeal chiefly to connoisseurs of fighting. Last week, two lightweights, neither of whom had any claim to the championship of the class, fought 15 rounds in New York's Madison Square Garden. When they finished, the most sophisticated fight crowd of the season agreed that, judged according to the bloody esthetics of pugilism, the affair deserved a niche among ring classics...