Word: ib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When grapnels touched "an object" at 73 fathoms (440 feet) submen knew what to expect: at that depth and pressure (almost 200 Ib. per square inch) the old O-9 must have folded, bow to stern, like an accordion. Oil slicked the surface. Cork, from the O-9's inner walls, bobbed up into the glare of searchlights. Pieces of the O-9's deck gratings, flakes of paint appeared. In the press room at the Portsmouth base, a Navy veteran said: "Boys, that...
...automatically get fat by eating. However, Dr. Alfred Steiner of Columbia fattened nine obstinately skinny patients by feeding them approximately three and a half ounces of powdered egg yolks every day in addition to their regular diet. In a few months they gained five to 16 Ib...
Champion Max Baer. Baby Baer, a 237-Ib. giant who towers 6 ft. 6½ in., is 35 Ib. heavier and 5½ inches taller than Joe Louis. But he went into the ring a 10-to-1 underdog...
supply (enough to last three years) has been in the hands of two or three speculative groups, who bought their way in for about $800,000 and have pushed the price from 4½? to a peak of 7⅝? a Ib. This increase of 70% in four months compares with an average increase of 6% for all commodities...
...unit (33,600 lb.) instead of $350, and an end to pure speculation, or 2) an OPACS-imposed price ceiling "considerably below the current price." Cowed, the brokers gulped assent to the margin boost. Next day pepper prices dropped a cent to less than 6½? a Ib.-the sharpest drop in the four-year history of the pepper market...