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Word: ib (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bright Eyes (Fox). When she appeared in Stand Up and Cheer which started her on her road to stardom, Shirley Temple weighed 42 Ib. Now she weighs 47 Ib. and is 11 in. taller. She arrives at the studio in a Dodge instead of a Ford. Her salary has gone up from $150 to $1,000 a week and Mrs. Temple is well paid for taking care of her daughter on the set. For amusement, Shirley wades in the ocean or plays with her two older brothers. Too young (5) to go to school, she studies dancing, takes lessons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 31, 1934 | 12/31/1934 | See Source »

...sugar market until the 1935 quotas came into effect Jan. 1. Accordingly, in early October, they signed a three-month agreement with U. S. refiners. The agreement: 1) Cuban producers would sell 130,000 long tons of raw sugar to the refiners at 2.18½? per Ib. and as much more at the same price as the refiners wanted; 2) Cuban producers would not sell any sugar for delivery during the rest of the year to anyone but refiners at any price. To refiners this agreement assured a year-end supply even though the price was high. To short traders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Sugar Squeeze | 12/31/1934 | See Source »

Born. To Clara Bow Bell, 29, retired "It"Girl, and Cowboy Rex Bell; a 7 Ib. son; at Santa Monica, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 24, 1934 | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

...Boston one day last week officials of Provident Institution for Savings watched the 30-ton door of their bank vault ponderously close and lock. A motor compressor forced air into the vault through a ventilator until a pressure-gauge climbed to 4 Ib. per square inch over atmospheric pressure. At that level the gauge stood still nearly an hour after the air input had stopped. A valve was then opened and the compressed air wheezed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Watertight | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

...Illinois farm boy, Jackson Reynolds went west to Stanford for an education. There his 190 Ib. of compact brawn made him a fearsome halfback on the football team managed by a youth named Herbert ("Bert") Hoover. When the late great George Fisher Baker discovered him, Mr. Reynolds was teaching law at Columbia University. One of his pupils was Franklin D. Roosevelt. Today the old teacher sees his prodigious pupil occasionally, but he is not rated a close Roosevelt friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Treaty of Washington | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

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