Word: ib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story to the Army, which has moved outfits before, bag & baggage, just to save time. Until the Army gets more transports, it will have to content itself with moving small outfits, learning how to stow bulky items like 37-mm. anti-tank guns (weight: 950 Ib.) in the planes...
...predated even Thurman Arnold, Aluminum Co. of America faced a much more important test of social responsibility in 1940. It entered 1941 with a 380,000,000-lb. market, enough to keep it at capacity. But latest forecast for 1942 is that aircraft alone would need 300,000,000 Ib. It was announced that Aluminum Co. by then would have 825,000,000 Ib. of capacity...
Promptly the State Sanitation Department ordered 150 Ib. of chlorine (ten times the normal amount) to be dumped into the water pipes, the Department of Health set up vaccine clinics to help immunize 300,000 Rochesterians against typhoid. The Telephone Company called up its 95,000 subscribers, warned them to boil their water. The Rochester & Lake Ontario Water Service Corp. offered pure water to all who would fetch...
...football is just like varsity football. Its offensive formations usually run out of a single wing (Yale sometimes uses a double wing). Defensively, the Fifties use all the standard lineups: five, six, seven-man, looping, overshifted lines. But, since all players weigh about the same (no more than 154 Ib. the day of the game), there is a premium on precision, speed, timing. A lightweight eleven's downfield blocking is often something even the pros might be proud of. Since Fifties play for fun rather than headlines, their strategies are more daring, more spectacular. Not unusual is a series...
Having brilliantly demonstrated economic lesson No. 1-lower prices to increase sales-turkey raisers are now working on lesson No. 2-keep the product up to date. Because ovens and families have grown smaller, big turkeys (20 to 30 Ib.) meet sales resistance. So the Department of Agriculture bred "streamlined" turkeys. The new birds go from egg to table in six months, are white-feathered, weigh up to 10 Ib., have more white meat. Last week, Manhattan's R. H. Macy capitalized on modernized, white-feathered, turkeys. Adopting Cadillac's 1933 limited-edition policy, it offered 750 "birds...