Word: ib
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hydrogen had taken nine hours. Perched on the surrounding cliffs, 35,000 spectators had watched all night while a ground crew of 120 U. S. cavalrymen, working under cinema floodlights, swung into place the airtight gondola with its ton of scientific apparatus and 4,200 Ib. of buckshot ballast. In climbed the crew: Major William E. Kepner (pilot & commander), onetime assistant navigator of the Los Angeles, winner of the 1928 Gordon Bennett international balloon race; Capt. Albert W. Stevens (scientific observer), famed aerial photographer; and Capt. Orvil A. Anderson, longtime lighter-than-airman...
...less hardy Scot, the spectacle of 8,000 fellow clansmen running loose on his country estate might have seemed alarming. Charles Arthur Moore, whose 6 ft. 3 in. and 250 Ib. made him easily the most impressive Scot at his extraordinary festival, was pleased by his Cowal Games last week until he noticed a group of clansmen paddling about in his stocked lake...
...things that hurt their consciences, and 40% thought there was too much politics in school work. Happy teachers, on the other hand, were more religious, less troubled by conscience and politics. More of them than of the malcontents were married.. And they averaged 7½ years older, 10 Ib. heavier...
...zinc contract was sold at 4.40¢ per lb. Both transactions were for 60,000 lb.?the trading unit selected by the Exchange. In a rush of trading which continued all day, sales of lead futures reached 1,380,000 lb., zinc futures 2,700,000 Ib...
...long, day after day for a week, they neatly pasted the little squares of cloth onto the printed pages. There were 980,000 cloth samples, called "swatches" by retailers, and cut from 6,000 yd. of material, to be affixed to 469,000 copies of rotogravure with 250 Ib. of paste. When all was finished. 15 trucks carted the 16 tons of paper to the New York Herald Tribune plant...