Word: ib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grunting Gophers on Minnesota's line averaged 201 Ibs., outweighing Michigan's line 19 Ibs. per man. All afternoon they smashed into Michigan's pony backfield, frequently upsetting Crisler's delicately timed plays. Outrushed on the ground, Michigan could well be thankful for its prize specialist, 6 ft., 182 Ib. Halfback Bob Chappuis (rhymes with happy-us†). He is Crisler's triggerman. His job is to throw the forward passes, and there is no one in 1947 collegiate football who does it better. In the Minnesota game, it was his flat, sure...
Already, henequeneros had heard that the U.S. Government would discontinue its wartime practice of buying their entire exportable surplus. Now from New York came news that Rogers International Corp. had sold the Russian fishing industry 8,000,000 lbs. of war-surplus cordage at 9¼? a Ib.-half the price the U.S. Government paid last year in Yucat...
...aristocrats in Merida's little country club might well have concluded that this was where they came in. In twelve years after World War I, International Harvester Co. and other U.S. makers of binder twine used war surpluses to force henequen prices down from 20? to 2? a Ib. The millionaires of Mérida, whose fortunes kept castles in Spain and France as well as along Mérida's broad Paseo de Montejo, went broke. The Cámaras turned their mansion at Mérida into a hotel. One of the Gutierrez scions...
...result was a "premium" in rayon. The "official" price had risen steadily: from 55? a Ib. for 150-denier viscose filament in August 1946, to 67? last week. But the premium market price was around twice that...