Word: ib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beat, even tougher. Hooligans learned to respect the man who whirled them casually about his head, crashed them to the pavement, piled them neatly under his knee. Officer Westgate, a thoughtful man, decided that women, too, should be able to protect themselves; specifically that his wife Violet (weight, 114 Ib.) should be able to repel mashers. "No," said Violet, "I'd rather scream." "You must," said Officer Westgate, flipping her headlong across the room. "See how easy it is? I'll have no thug beating up my missus." Violet agreed to learn four holds, no more. They studied...
...miles an hour faster than any dive-bomber now in the air, which would put its top speed around 350 m.p.h. And it will carry twice the load of today's best. Since the Stuka Junkers 87 carries a maximum bomb load of 1,100 Ib., airmen could well assume that Helldiver, 1941 can carry better than a ton in its roomy belly. What also pleased Navy men was XSB2C-I's range (600 miles farther to sea than any other model), and fire power (double the punch of any single-engined Navy airplane now in service). Built...
...beaten a schedule. The Radford Ordnance Works, built and operated by Hercules Powder Co., was going into production three months ahead of plan. When the first of Radford's production lines starts rolling this week, it will turn out smokeless powder at the rate of 100,000 Ib. a day, nearly 50% more than the U. S. was producing on a peacetime schedule. And when Radford's other two lines go into production this summer, its output will...
Another new plant at Charlestown, Ind. (capacity 600,000 Ib. daily) is well ahead of schedule, will go into production, operated by Du Pont, in April. And the third, at Childersburg, Ala., will be ready to turn out smokeless powder at the rate of 300,000 Ib. by midsummer. No matter what unforeseen delays might do later, one critical bottleneck was cracked, would soon break. By autumn, the Army and Navy would have a wartime powder supply...
...over the world (200-300% from the U. S. to the Near East, 50% to Singapore and The Netherlands Indies, 25% to South America). Commodities markets boiled with evidence that traders knew there was many a shoal ahead for ocean-going freight. Rubber rose to 22.75? a Ib. (a new high for the season), raw sugar to 3.30? a Ib. (highest in 17 months), cocoa to 7.43? a Ib. (highest since...