Word: ib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...honest old Manhattan woman brought her remaining 2 Ib. of sugar into the registration board, was pushed as she stood in line, spilled it all on the floor...
...biggest hoard was 15,000 Ib. by a New Jersey electrician who filled a warehouse with sugar two years ago. His wife can get none of his sugar and no ration cards until he disposes of his 577-year supply...
...Florida Agricultural Experiment Station scientists gave the public a formula for eking out sugar: mix 1 Ib. of sugar with 7 oz. water, ¼ teaspoon tartaric acid, cover, boil for 30 minutes, cool. Result is equal sweetening, cup for cup, to straight sugar...
...children of Brazil's Petropolis, in celebration of President Getulio Vargas' 59th birthday: a cake, ten feet high, 26 feet in diameter, supporting a sugar-and-dough bust of the President. Among the ingredients: 1.200 dozen eggs, 25 bags of flour, 25 bags of sugar, 12 Ib. of butter, 52 quarts of milk, eleven quarts of currant syrup, five bottles of rum, 7 Ib. of sugar plums...
Born. To Molly O'Daniel Wrather, 20, daughter of Texas Senator Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy'') O'Daniel, and Jack D. Wrather Jr., 23: a daughter: in Dallas. Weight: 9 Ib. 13 oz. Name: Molly O'Daniel Wrather...