Word: ib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Swingster Benny Goodman, 33, and Alice Hammond Duckworth Goodman, 37: their first child, Rachel; in Los Angeles. Weight: 6 Ib...
Born. To Cinemactress Rosalind Rus sell, 34, and Army Captain Fred Brisson, 30, peacetime actors' agent: their first child, a boy ; in Hollywood. Weight : 8½ Ib...
Weight : 6 Ib...
...January 1942, President Roosevelt ordered two squadrons of the 7th Heavy Bombardment Group to Mac-Arthur's relief, via the South Atlantic, Africa and India. To a friend one of the pilots of a 7th Group Liberator wrote: "The total weight of my plane was over 60,000 Ib. [standard maximum, 56,000]. I believe that was the first time an air unit ever moved with all its equipment in its air echelon alone" (i.e., with enough equipment aboard to begin fighting...
...being salvaged. Jorgen D. Bering at Salinas, Calif, is preparing to process some of the 132,000 tons of lettuce culls discarded from the 14,000 carloads of lettuce to be shipped from Salinas this season. After being dried and concentrated, each ton of culls will give 80 Ib. of a protein-rich meal suitable for cattle feed, also for the extraction of vitamin A. The amount of vitamin available from U.S. waste lettuce is close to the entire output of the U.S. fisheries industry, now handicapped...