Word: ib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...right. She was a 1,300-Ib. Holstein, a runaway from a herd of 28 unloaded that day from Wisconsin. Heading back toward the farm, she had wandered along a creek bed which leads into the labyrinth of sewers under the city...
Alcoa plans to sell 1,000,000 Ib. of aluminum yearly for shoe eyelets; more in typewriter parts, hair curlers, license plates...
...what price all these post-war markets would add up to 1,100,000,000 Ib. a year, not even Alcoa knew last week...
Other architectural uses: store fronts, window frames. Said one Alcoa man, "If anyone wants to make a million, all he has to do is bring us a perfected window frame." A mere 5% of that market, he estimated, would call for 30,000,000 Ib. of aluminum a year...
Officially, Henderson had not abandoned his ceiling on cotton grey goods; he had merely unhitched it and tied it to raw cotton prices. For every .44? a Ib. change in cotton prices (up or down from 15.99?) the price of cloth can change ½? a Ib. (starting at 43? for Class A print cloths...