Word: ib
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Memorial Craftsmen of America, an exposition only slightly disturbed by the fact that it occupied space in Manhattan's Grand Central Palace directly above the National Liquor Show. Besides the landscaped family plot, the girders of the building groaned beneath more than 500 tombstones, 700,000 Ib. of marble, bronze and granite. Secretary Roswell M. Austin of the Memorial Extension Commission announced that 1935 was the biggest year for the tombstone industry since Depression, that the average price of tombstones had risen from a Depression low of $350 to nearly $500. The industry sold...
...beauty of her voice, its vibrant warmth, its effortless production. Smooth singing was to be expected at her Metropolitan debut, and with the exception of a few strained top notes there was little fault to find. Surprise was to see her appear as a lithe, graceful woman 25 Ib. thinner than she used to be, to see an Aida who appeared not like a prima donna stained brown for the occasion, but like the sultry, brooding slave girl that Verdi had in mind...
...faster when they realized its meaning (see p. 16). In the ensuing confusion, trading halted temporarily in a number of issues, and the session ran to nearly 5,000,000 shares. ¶Copper stocks climbed to new highs for the Roosevelt bull market when copper was upped ¼?per Ib. to 9½? by Phelps Dodge Corp. Anaconda Copper followed suit but Kennecott, presumably skeptical of the possibilities of maintaining a higher price with present demands, continued selling at the old level. ¶ Discounting fat Government orders for the next year, airplane stocks soared on the passing by the House...
...cows. Last week a purebred Holstein on Carnation Co.'s experimental dairy farm near Seattle finished a year's test which set new world records in both classifications. The cow: Carnation Ormsby Butter King, known to her attendant as Daisy. In 365 days Daisy produced 38,606.6 Ib. of milk and 1,420 Ib. of butterfat. That was equal to nearly 18,000 quarts and 1,750 lb. of butter.* Daisy was milked four times every 24 hours by Carnation's able cowhand, Carl Gockrell, who also milked the former world's champion milk producer...
India, Ceylon and Java-Sumatra export 85% of the world's tea. The U. S. buys 80,000,000 Ib. of tea a year, for which it pays $16,000,000. Only Great Britain consumes more. To make U. S. inhabitants even more ardent tea drinkers has long been the aim of the International Tea Market Expansion Board in general, and Mr. Gervas Huxley in particular. Mr. Huxley, the tweedy common denominator of all Englishmen, is Novelist Aldous Huxley's cousin and the director of the famed BUY BRITISH campaign. Late in 1934 Mr. Huxley, along with...