Word: ib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Love Story. In Leitchfield, Ky., 275-Ib. Maggie Oiler, 39, and A. B. Farris, 99, were remarried after twenty years of divorce, because "we couldn't live without each other...
...handiwork and she hung it on the front porch of the white clapboard house on Oliver Street. She made a pad for it, and whenever it came apart, she patched it up with wire. One afternoon last week the wire gave way. Down in a heap went 165-Ib. Tom Dewey, 210-lb. National Committeeman Arthur E. Summerfield, 180-Ib. State Committee Treasurer Ben 0. Shepherd. No casualties...
...another commodity edged up enough to shove Dun & Bradstreet's weekly index of wholesale food prices to a record high. Some metals rose too. Lead went up 1? to a new high of 14? a lb.; copper worth only 14 3/8? under OPA ceiling rose to 21? a Ib. Silver, which had sagged to 70? a Ib. in February, now somersaulted...
Cheer in the Cupboards. In high hog prices, the U.S. was paying for the post-OPA stampede of pigs to market last fall. The hog crop was so depleted then that pork would remain relatively scarce until May. There was a good prospect of $1-a-Ib. pork chops-if anyone would buy them. But there was no reason why anyone should; there was plenty of other lower-priced food to eat. The Department of Agriculture was actually worried because there was so much food in cold storage. Example: there were 140 million Ibs. of turkeys in cold storage...
...gets all of it, there will still be far from enough sugar to satisfy U.S. demands. If sugar controls lapse, sugar men feared that big industrial users would outbid everyone else for the existing supply, boost the price of sugar to as high as 40? a Ib. for housewives...