Word: ib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offering odds as to who will relieve Fielding. The following quotations came hot off the back room board as we went to press; P. Bennett, 1 1/2 -2; J. Donegan 15-7 1/4; A. Murphy 2 1/4 -1/2; T. Sweeny 5 rubles to a dime; C. Collins 2 ib steel to an ounce of copper...
...Sabata, owner of a general store in Dwight, Neb. (pop. 294) thought the recipient of his letter might like to know the price of eggs and such things. Meticulously he set them down: "Coffee, 29? a Ib.; sugar, 8? a Ib.; beans, 9? a Ib.; eggs, 32? a dozen; corn meal, 5 Ib. for 17?; overalls, $1.75 a pr." Added Storekeeper Sabata: "My family consists of four girls, ages 21, 19, 16 and one year. I wouldn't do my government much good for soldiers, having all girls, but I did my part in 1918. I was in France...
...moment "not a single plane originally conceived solely to carry cargo is in service in the Western Hemisphere," but one-quarter of all the two-and four-engined planes scheduled for production this year will be cargo transports. By 1945, transports weighing from 100,000 to 120,000 Ib. will be "flying in quantity." Their ton-mile capacity will be ten times that of today's "work horse of the airlines," the 25,200-lb. Douglas...
Love's Labor. Private Marvin Rubin took $7 worth of nickels into a Brooklyn phone booth, started calling his girl friend at 11 a.m., called her every five minutes for eleven hours, won her promise after spending $6.60 and losing 5 Ib...
...snake her way through a radiobroadcast love scene, Theda Bara, 52, siren of the early silents, emerged from 20-odd years of retirement. Her victim was goggle-eyed Groucho Marx. The studio audience found the famed vamp about 30 Ib. heavier than in her salad days, but still trim in the legs, hypnotic in the eyes. They also found her afflicted with stage fright. The ex-siren told reporters she did the stunt as a favor to friends, had no idea of trying a comeback, then returned to the curio-cluttered mansion where she has long been one of Hollywood...