Word: ib
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nelson Jr., bandleader at Hollywood's Colony Club. They went to school together, met again at the 1932 Olympic Games. Davis joke: "Ham is a good egg." Born in a thunderstorm, Bette Davis now considers rainstorms lucky. She is 5 ft. 3 in. tall, weighs 106 Ib. Her figure is insured...
...General Hospital of Kingston, Out., a 115-lb., 41-yr.-old woman had a 55-lb. tumor removed. Weighing 60 Ib. she may recover...
...Hole. President Carl Ewald Grunsky of the California Academy of Science died last week just before he was to suggest that, if all mankind cooperated, they might dig a hole through the 200 miles of earth's crust and tap tremendous heat and gas imprisoned under 900,000 Ib. pressure per square inch...
...operates a fleet of 86 ships. In recent years it has gone extensively into business in Newfoundland where it bought Job Bros. & Co., owners of the only sal mon factory ship in the world. From Newfoundland Hudson's Bay Co. ships annually to England some 1,250,000 Ib. of famed "Hubay" salmon, the most popular imported brand in Great Britain...
...learned to fly balloons, went to Fort Myer, Va. where Orville Wright was trying to sell the Army its first airplane. He laid out the test course-the amazing distance of ten miles-and was chosen official passenger by Orville Wright for two reasons. First, he weighed only 126 Ib. Second, as Orville Wright put it, "You laid out the course, so if anything happens you have only yourself to blame." The Army bought the flimsy plane, appropriated $150 for maintenance, and in 90 minutes the Wrights made "Benny" Foulois the Army's No. 1 pilot. First year...