Word: ib
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their difficulties. Unanimously they agreed that the steady increase of foreign competition and the steady decrease of foreign and domestic markets for raw cotton and cotton goods spelled approaching ruin for both planters and millers. Unanimously they blamed most of their troubles on AAA's 4.2? a Ib. processing tax. And unanimously they set off for the White House to get a political pre-scription for King Cotton...
...door to door, ask each New York housewife her origin, nationality, family income, number in family, number of children, number of servants, number of boarders; whether she had bought any poultry in the past seven days; if so, what day, what kind of fowl, what weight, what cost per Ib.; was it slaughtered in New York; was it plucked? He was also supposed to gather data on eggs, but Michael Weintraub said sadly that the door was usually slammed in his face before he got well started on the fowl. He did not know what happened to the little information...
...Scandals, experts estimate that Dancer Powell covers four miles in the course of her routine. She has brown hair, blue eyes, weighs 117 Ib. Her next picture: Broadway Melody...
...pull out of a 10,000-ft. dive hard enough to push the g (gravity) reading up to nine, and pull me down into my seat with a force equal to nine times my own weight, or 1,350 Ib. . . . I took off and went up to 15,000 ft. and stuck her down to 300 m.p.h. I horsed back on the stick and watched the accelerometer. Up she went, and down into my seat I went. Centrifugal force, like some huge invisible monster, pushed my head down into my shoulders and squashed me into that seat so that...
...brought the rise to a quick halt in September by stubbornly refusing to buy. Now that the beef and hog shortage is really a market factor meat prices are again climbing. The supply of fresh butter has dwindled so rapidly that dealers are drawing from storage 1,000,000 Ib. daily to meet demand, and stocks on hand at the beginning of February were only 18,000,000 Ib. as against 76,000,000 Ib. at the same time last year. Retail prices have jumped from 35? per lb. in November to as high as 51?. In December sale...