Word: ib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ground school or in the air above West Point's Stewart Field. In good flying weather, this routine leaves less than three hours a week for football. Quiet, modest Cas Myslinski says he plays it for relaxation. Tall (5 ft. 11¾ in.), rugged (195 Ib.) and well-knit, he is older than most cadets. His roommate is the son of Joseph M. Patterson, New York Daily News publisher...
...biggest single catch taken annually from the teeming Great Lakes waters, which are the biggest single source of fresh-water fish in America. This year, despite the manpower shortage and a run almost two weeks late in starting, lake fishermen hope to lift 17 to 19 million Ib. from the shallow inshore waters where the herring come in to spawn. Such a catch, well under 1940's 22,480,000 Ib., would be worth more than $600,000 these days, well over...
Laurance & Lester Armour and Joseph M. Cudahy got gouged by their Chicago corner butchers, according to OPA. Investigators of violated price ceilings reported that the Armours had paid 10? a Ib. too much for hamburger and Cudahy 8? too much for sirloin...
...Benchley got buttonholed by the New York Daily News's "Inquiring Fotographer," who asked them if they felt any different, now that they were celebrities. Cagney and Miss Lawrence answered no. Said Benchley: "When I started out on what you call my 'career' I weighed 143 Ib. and had never had an intoxicating drink. I always wore a 'Belmont' 14½ collar and did exercises to develop my neck. You ask me if I feel different today...
...late Edsel Ford's daughter, only granddaughter of Henry Ford; and Naval Reserve Cadet Walter Buhl Ford II, 23, Detroit-born '42 Yaleman (no kin): a son, Walter Buhl III, Henry Ford's second great-grandchild; in Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital. Weight: 8 Ib...