Word: ib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Merseburg-323. The ME-323 was developed from designs for a monstrous wooden glider, with a wing span of 180 feet. Six French Gnôme-Rhône engines were added to make a plane that would carry 120 fully equipped soldiers or 20,000 Ib. of freight 450 miles at 140 miles an hour. It has ten half-sunk wheels well forward to prevent nosing over in rough landings, and the front of its fuselage can let down to take in trucks and light tanks. It looks like a boxcar that insists on flying...
...such flexibility of fighter supply, engineers devised a big (165-gallon) plastic tank, attached one to each wing of the Lightning. Weighing 1,000 Ib. when full (90 empty), the tanks are jettisoned when used. Streamlined, they take only 4% off the P-38's top speed, a lower percentage at cruising speeds...
Born. To Signal Corps Private Alan Ladd Jr., 29, peacetime cinema tough guy, and Actor's Agent Sue Carol (real name: Evelyn Lederer), 35: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Weight: 8 Ib. 110z Killed in Action. British Army Captain Glyn David Rhys-Williams, 21, grandson of Novelist Elinor (It) Glyn; in North Africa...
...curtailment of guayule culture strikes the best source of natural U.S. rubber, capable of producing 400 Ib. an acre a year. There is no current hope for rubber from any of the thousands of other rubber-bearing plants that have been studied. Cornell's Dr. Lewis Knudson has tried some 30 himself, says "No native plant can be recommended at present as a source of rubber." Swamp milkweed may yield 45 Ib. an acre; golden rod, 75 Ib.; Indian hemp not more than 25 Ib. The Russian dandelion (kok-sagyz), seeds of which were rushed to the U.S. from...
...food banks are really small local packing plants. For the farmer some food banks will slaughter, chill, cut, smoke or freeze, and package. For the urbanite they buy whole sides of beef from the meat wholesaler, cut it to chops, store it away. Extra charges: 1? to 5? a Ib. Even so, locker renters save 50 to 75% compared with retail meat prices; many a farmer eats choice beef...