Word: ib
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which a serious surplus still exists. While the carryover had been cut from 13,000,000 bales to 9,000,000 at the start of the crop year, it was still 4,000,000 bales above normal. And cotton sagged last week, distant futures slipping below 10? per Ib. Meantime, elimination of the 4.2? cotton processing tax brought trading in cotton textiles to a halt. Prices were cut but not enough to satisfy buyers, who insisted that quotations must fully reflect the saving in taxes. Tire makers, who have been paying some $20,000,000 annually in cotton processing taxes...
Sugar refiners reduced prices to the full extent of the processing tax, taking orders at 4.75? per Ib. instead...
...jumped from sedan chairs and wheelbarrows to airplanes. His passengers were Chinese merchants and military men, women going for operations, an American explorer aiming toward Tibetan Mountains, a German doctor, a U. S. Congressman hunter, a reclamation engineer, a woman archeologist, a Chinese envoy of British government carrying 110 Ib. of silver to Lhasa...
Autocar's first catalog in 1898 listed a $450 "package carrier fitted with special gear, capacity 700 Ib. including driver." For the next few years Autocar was a popular passenger make, sporting a propeller shaft at a time when most cars were chain-driven. It pioneered the porcelain spark plug in the U. S., and its thread has since become standard for all spark plugs. In 1911 Autocar started to specialize on trucks, now makes models from 2%½ ton to 15½ ton capacity. An Autocar feature was long the under-the-seat motor, now being adopted...
Freistater of The Bronx, whom the New York City Board of Education considered too fat for a permanent teaching job in the city schools (TIME, Dec. 9 et ante). Described by her father as "big and strong," Rose three months ago had weighed 182 lb., which was 32 Ib. over the Board's limit for 5 ft. 2 in. teachers. Last week, ready for a hearing before the State Commissioner, she weighed in at 154 lb., fully dressed. "She's down to 150 without her clothes," crowed her attorney...