Word: ib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Salt is very scarce. Beer is still abundant, but weak. Cheese and tobacco scarcely exist. There are no chemical fertilizers for next summer's crops. Moën lost 25 Ib. during his six months in occupied Antwerp...
...golfer, he holds a long-distance (not accuracy) driving record at Chicago's Bob O'Link Golf Club; he is said to have the longest, most exasperating hook outside a Wodehouse story. He smokes cigars, cigarets, and his huge fumigatory pipe, drinks Scotch highballs, dieted 20 Ib. off before going to Washington, has eaten them back on with interest. He hates exercise, said recently: "The only exercise I take now is walking in the funeral processions of friends who died from too much...
...four-motored Consolidated ("Liberator") does a fancy (for a bomber) 335 m.p.h., has a range of 3,000 miles with two tons of bombs. ¶ Navy's four-motored Consolidated patrol boat PB2Y-I has a top of 220, a range of 5,200 miles with 4,200 Ib. of bombs-a handy piece of equipment for anti-submarine patrol. ¶ Navy's two-motored Consolidated ("Catalina") the British call one of the world's most efficient flying boats. Top speed: 285, range 4,500 miles. ¶Army's two-motored Douglas medium bomber ("Boston") hits...
...boards saw eye to eye. In Los Angeles, a board placed Cinemactor James Stewart in Class I-B (for limited service) because he was ten pounds underweight. (Jimmy Stewart, weight 145, declared he wanted to serve.) In Chicago, a husky named Len Weiner was drafted although (at 245 Ib.) he was well over Army weight standards...
...Garden, Keaney's sharpshooters played St. Francis College, highest scorers (per game) in metropolitan New York. Keaney's son, the team's captain, was rumored to be bigger than the State of Rhode Island. He proved to stand only 6 ft. 4 and weigh only 270 Ib. What he could do on a basketball court looked problematical to most fans. But they soon found out : hovering under the St. Francis basket, young Keaney snatched every ball off the backboard, heaved it the length of the court to his teammates, clustered around their own basket...