Word: ib
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After 24 hours during which the railroad not only did not move 'its stranded cars but virtually ceased freight operations eastward over the line, the militia was called out. Ugliness and perhaps bloodshed were avoided by East St. Louis merchants and ex-service men who provided 200 Ib. of sausage meat and free truck transportation to Washington, Ind., thus shifting an unpleasant situation into the lap of a neighbor State...
...force coffee prices up, Brazil's National Coffee Council continues to burn coffee (TIME, July 6). It announced last week that 6,565,641 sacks of coffee have been burned. It promised to burn by Jan. 1, 1933 a total of 18 million sacks each containing 132 Ib. of coffee. At approximately $6.50 per sack, $117,000,000 worth of coffee will have been turned to smoke...
William Van Alen (Chrysler Building) showed a 4½ Ib. black bass and William F. Lamb (Empire State) a collection of China pigs...
Tung oil (also called "wood oil") is used, in addition to paints and varnishes, for insulation and for waterproofing. The U. S. oil is selling at about 10? per Ib. against 6? for imported oil. The imported oil is of inferior quality, generally adulterated with soy bean oil. Two years ago the price of imported oil was 14-15?. There are only 3,500 acres in the U. S. in production now. When the 25,000 acres now planted are in full bearing they should yield 50,000,000 Ib. against normal imports of twice that much...
...anoa (pygmy water buffalo) weighing 200 Ib. attacked and killed a 350-lb. nilgai. Animalcatcher Buck named him Little Tough Guy, but a few days later he found him cringing in a corner of his cage. Nearby was a 7-lb. porcupine...