Word: ib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tall (6 ft. 2 in.) burly (220 Ib.) recruit with a mouth-filling name reports this week to the Air Corps station at Maxwell Field, Ala. The recruit: 20-year-old Egon Ludwig Sedgwick Hanfstaengl, U. S.-born son of Harvardman "Putzi" Hanfstaengl, onetime piano-playing pal of Adolf Hitler. Father "Putzi," who jumped from the German frying pan just in time, landed in a Canadian concentration camp. His son, a U. S. citizen, left his Harvard class for a three-year hitch in the Air Corps...
...guests ate 15 steers, one buffalo, several calves and sheep (in all 17,000 lb. of dressed meat) and 12,800 wieners. They also downed 3,200 loaves of bread, 6,500 buns, 1,250 lb. of onions, half a ton of potato chips, 6,000 sour pickles, 500 Ib. of cheese. The lemonade alone took 2,000 dozen lemons; and 900 gallons of coffee went down Texas gullets...
...words, Woolton abruptly lowered the British meat ration, which last month stood at 47? worth of meat per person per week, to 30? (15. 6d.).Two days later the Food Minister felt obliged to cut the meat ration to 23? (15. 2d.)-which at war prices means about 1 Ib. beef or 2 lb. mutton. Chickens are not rationed but cost 65? a lb. and most people cannot afford them. To most Britons this meant that the German counter-blockade had taken hold in grim earnest, although Lord Woolton offered an explanation: "There were excellent reasons for this [reducing...
Glenn Martin has a $131,000,000 order for about 1,000 B-26s, last week had the first 20-odd moving rapidly along his assembly line. The best news of his plane last week was not its performance (1,000-mile range, 3,000 to 4,000 Ib. of bombs) but the fact that it was approved. The experimental model which was flown last week ordinarily would have received weeks of further testing by the Air Corps, then more time would have been taken for changes. After all that, Maker Martin could have gone ahead with real production (until...
...gusto of W. C. Fields, and to everyone's surprise singing beautifully, Basso Baccaloni was rated by critics as the Met's best acquisition since Kirsten Flagstad. He is only 40, but needs no false belly. Just under six feet tall, he weighs a noble 320 Ib.-result of resigning himself to comedy and enjoying the cooking of his Bulgarian wife. Born in Rome, Salvatore Baccaloni sang as a boy in the Sistine Choir. When his voice changed, he resolved to become an architect, would have done so had not an old-time Metropolitan baritone persuaded...