Word: ib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Figuring, as surveys indicate, that about 700 Ib. of scrap can be got from the average farm and 100 Ib. of scrap from the average home, the nation's 6,000,000 farms can turn up 1,880,000 tons, the nation's 22,000,000 non-farm homes can turn up 1,000,000 more. Together they could keep the mills going at the present rate for about a year-if all were salvaged, which is hardly likely...
...prime virtue of the Zero is that it handles well-climbs fast and maneuvers quickly. Its speed is good (more than 350 m.p.h. at 10,000 feet) and its service ceiling is exceptional: 36,000 feet. It is light (5,140 Ib. is normal flying weight) and rather small (wing span, 39.4 feet; length, 28.4 feet...
Thus the Galápagos, first discovered in 1535, once again make history. For several centuries they were a famed stopping place for buccaneers and whalers, who took along the islands' giant (400 Ib.) tortoises for fresh meat, and set up a primitive post office (in a barrel) which still provides free mail delivery. In 1835 they made scientific history: Charles Darwin visited them, found that half of the islands' birds and flowers had no counterparts elsewhere, gathered data that later gave him the idea for his Origin of Species...
...Governor, Ellis Gibbs Arnall, 35, is the boy wonder of Georgia politics. Short (5 ft. 6), stocky (190 Ib.) pear-shaped, a great joiner and organizer, he got the urge for politicking from a grandfather in the Alabama Legislature. As a twelve-year-old, he worked as page boy in the Alabama House; less than 13 years later, he was a full-fledged member of Georgia's Legislature...
Conn, a notorious night owl, will probably enter the ring a better man than last time. Army life has put him in the pink of condition, added 15 Ib. to his weight of a year ago (when he weighed 174 to Louis' 200). At 24, he should be at the peak of his fistic career. Always slow at getting himself into fighting shape, Louis has been hindered, not helped, by the cavalry. Used to training for six weeks or more, he may find four weeks too short to get his fill of roadwork before starting to sharpen his timing...