Word: ib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Twenty-eight-year-old Red Cross Field Director Thomas S. Montgomery could hardly miss being nicknamed "Tiny"-he stands 6 ft. 8 ½ in., weighs a whopping 275 Ib. Too oversized to enlist, he squeezed his bulk into a Red Cross uniform, soon became noted on Guadalcanal for his frontline chant: "Chewing gum, candy, popcorn, soda pop. What'll you have, boys?" Wandering about the jungle alone, Montgomery recently met a group of marines. Said he: "Aren't we pretty close to the front lines now, fellows?" Said a marine: "Front lines, hell. They're half...
...Milwaukee man had hoarded 158 Ib. of coffee, his quota for a decade. Boston 'racketeers stole householders' food by posing as OPA inspectors come to check excess supplies...
...fictitious names, since the Red Cross will not knowingly take blood from anyone oftener than once every two months. Armour has altogether been drained of about three times as much blood as he has in his body at any one time. His weight has stayed the same: around 216 Ib...
Allen's problem: how to add 20,000 Ib. weight to the Fortress without decreasing its altitude or its speed. Adding a tail-gun was revolutionary in itself. It meant greatly increased weight, a displaced center of gravity. How well Eddie Allen succeeded in applying his test-pilot-M.I.T. knowledge of engineering is emphasized almost daily from Rabaul to Bizerte...
Born. To Marva Trotter Barrow, 26; and Sergeant Joseph Louis Barrow, 28, World Heavyweight Champion: their first child, a daughter, 7 Ib. 5 oz.; in Chicago...