Word: ib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Cinemactress Virginia Bruce and husband J. Walter Ruben, film director: a son, 6 Ib. 11 oz., their first child, her second; in Los Angeles. Her first, Susan Ann Gilbert, 8, is the daughter of the late John Gilbert. Married. Ruth Elizabeth McCormick, daughter of onetime Representative Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms and the late Senator Medill McCormick, granddaughter of the late President-maker Mark Hanna; and Maxwell Peter Miller Jr. of Rockford, Ill.; near Rockford...
...housewives wondered last week why their aluminum pots and pans, given to their Government six weeks ago, were still stacked high around courthouses and fire stations. To satisfy them, the Office of Civilian Defense announced that 6,700,000 Ib. of the estimated 14,000,000 collected had "moved toward defense production." By "moved," OCD meant allocated to specific smelters. Actually only a fraction of this amount had been taken away...
Meanwhile in cities, where piles of scrap still blight city halls, mayors began to scream too. But McConnell, surveying the mess he did not make, was still remarkably optimistic. Allowing for baby carriages, he still hopes to get 8,400,000 Ib. of aluminum out of the 14,000,000 Ib. of scrap collected. Estimated Army, Navy, Lend-Lease and "essential" civilian requirements in 1942: 1,400,000,000 Ib...
...Provident. Founded in 1891 by a brilliant young Negro surgeon named Daniel Hale Williams, it was the first institution in the U.S. for training Negro nurses and interns. A number of white industrialists gave money for a frame house and 13 beds; local Negroes donated such necessities as 8 Ib. of prunes, 8 Ib. of feathers, a bottle of Holland gin, a washboard, a pair of crutches, four cakes of soap...
...Back lift, 2,000 Ib. 250 times in seven minutes...