Word: ib
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Problem of the rubber industry is the elasticity of crude rubber prices (from $3 a Ib. in 1910 to 2? lb. in 1933), controlled by conditions abroad. General Johnson & aides will have to allow for a wide basic price range in manufactured rubber products...
...Wallace announced his cotton plans: A week's campaign to sign up enough growers to take 10,000,000 acres out of production by leasing them to the Government for $6 to $20 per acre. Only if the South overwhelmingly accepts this offer, will a 4 cent per Ib. cotton processing tax go into effect to pay the cost...
Born. To Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr., Philadelphia sportsman-socialite, divorced husband of Mary L. Duke, tobacco heiress; and Margaret Hickman Schulze Biddle, daughter of the late Mining Tycoon William Boyce Thompson: a son; in Paris. Weight: 9 Ib...
...divorce, Bennett and Actress Cheston lived together openly as man & wife. In 1926 their daughter Virginia Mary was born. Bennett describes the event very characteristically: "I went up to Welbeck St. [the hospital] at 9.30 and saw the child at 10 a. m., two hours old. She weighed 8 Ib. 1 oz. and had a big head...
...vaults. In the Salvor, backed by Vincent Astor & friends, Captain Harry L. Bowdoin set out to catch the prize. Aboard he carried stout metal cylinders with movable legs and arms attached, which were to enable his divers to work comfortably at great depths. The weighty apparatus (1,400 Ib. at the surface) is also equipped with searchlights. Also aboard, Captain Bowdoin carried small arms and machine-guns, prepared for naval battle with high-jackers or covetous rivals. Just what happened at the wreck scene the Coast Guard did not report, but presently a Captain John Hall of the Theresa...