Word: ib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Weight of the infants: eight Ib. each...
...Boston, one in New York) for charity. To see the two southpaws with strange bats in their hands, 2,000 folks turned out at Boston's Commonwealth Country Club. They saw no heckling match: it was much too serious for that. The Babe, now 47 and 30 Ib. heavier than in his heyday, put his 230 Ib. behind each tee shot, outdrove Cobb on nearly every hole. Cobb, 54, played a characteristically crafty short game. His brilliant putting stole hole after hole. On the 16th green, he won the match, 3 and 2. Finishing the 18 holes to please...
Cotton crossed 15? a Ib. for the first time since 1930. It was a week in which Leon needed to have all his wits about him. Instead, he got into a tiff with Chrysler Corp., infuriated cotton Congressmen, got a very bad press, and wound up with a draft of a price-fixing law, which Congress promptly tore to pieces...
...upper schooling in the lightweight, welterweight, middleweight and light-heavyweight classes, had only recently given up his light-heavy title to take a jab at Joe Louis' diadem. The wise money said The Kid should have waited another year. He was fast and smart but he was 25 Ib. lighter than Louis, had no steam behind his punches...
...estimated that by July 1942 there will be an aluminum shortage of at least 200,000 tons. The die casters need about 15,000 tons of aluminum a year to stay in business. The steel industry, using ¾ Ib. of aluminum (as a cleanser) to make a ton of steel, is now using about 30,000 tons. When steel uses aluminum, it uses it up completely, and around a quarter of its products require virgin metal. But die castings need only scrap, and represent a scrap reservoir. Yet all steel has an A-10 or better priority rating on aluminum...