Word: ib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ugly twin towers, burned to the ground. But the North Tower remained. Recently the neighborhood began to think the Luftwaffe was using the tower as a landmark. The Supply Ministry also wanted its 840 tons of wrought and cast iron. So, one day last week, engineers packed 120 Ib. of gelignite against one side of the tower, touched it off, and watched this appendix of Victorian days topple...
Born. To Gerald Felix Warburg, cello-playing son of the late Banker Felix Moritz Warburg (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.), and Natica Nast, daughter of Publisher Conde Nast (Vogue, House and Garden): a son, their second child (weight: 8 Ib. 4½ oz.); in Manhattan...
...they expected to see a doddering oldster, they were surprised. Old Steve Dutton is built like the village smith, bullnecked, his nearly-six-foot frame wrapped with 180 Ib. of muscle as tough as a lion-tamer's boot. He has never worn glasses. His hearing is acute. Neat in a black suit and powder-blue topcoat, clean shaven and impatient, he stomped out under the bright lights, roaring in a deep black bass. He raged at being held without bail, bawled out a stripling cop who dared touch his shoulder...
...Chemical Society, told how he had found a remedy for this fatal disease. With a group of colleagues, he had tried to find the exact chemicals in bone marrow which stimulate the production of white blood cells. After three years of tedious labor, in which they used over 200 Ib. of yellow-marrow from cattle bones, the scientists extracted about one ounce of alcohol. This they separated into two component parts: batyl alcohol and chimyl alcohol. When they examined the chemical structure, the scientists found that these alcohols were the same as those found in shark-liver oil over...
Hence they have little incentive to put them up in cans; most of the tinned beef sold in the U. S. already is packed in South America. In 1939 the Navy got a bid of 9.?7 a Ib. (not counting tariff) against a low bid of 23.6/ for U. S. tinned beef. Yet when President Roosevelt proposed that the Navy accept the Argentine bid (at a saving of $6,672), sectionally-minded Congressmen like Scrugham tied his hands...