Word: ib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senator Pat Harrison, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and the nearest thing to a friend the bill has, called it the "most intricate tax bill ever presented to Congress." At that time it was 96 pages long. By last week it had grown to 489 pages, weighed 1 Ib. 7 oz. without binding, and had progressed from intricacy to metaphysics. Senator La Follette called it "a complicated hodgepodge." Senator Vandenberg called it "an imponderable mess." Said Senator Hiram Johnson of certain sections: "I do not think a Philadelphia lawyer could understand them." Even Pat Harrison made...
...Chicago an 8 Ib. 5¼ oz. daughter (Caesarean) was born to famed infantile paralysis victim Frederick Bernard ("Boiler Kid") Snite Jr. and Teresa Larkin Snite. Shortly before, Snite came out of the iron lung that has kept him alive for four years, was photographed outside his tank for the first time since his illness (see cut). A chest respirator, concealed under his coat and connected to bellows by a tube, kept him going...
Last week the cold, still heart of Leon Trotsky was removed from his corpse, weighed, and bottled in alcohol. Weight: 1.13 Ib. A surgeon sawed open the Trotsky skull, cut away the brain envelope, severed the nerves leading to the spinal column, lifted out that once-great brain. Weight: 3-44 Ib...
...hour and forty minutes later, seven days almost to the minute from the time he walked into his peaceful garden to meet his assassin, the last of Leon Trotsky was removed from the furnace and funneled into an urn. His ashes weighed 1.76 Ib...
...Other great-brain weights: Turgenev, 4.435 Ib.; Byron, 3.98 Ib.; Kant, 3.5 Ib.; Schiller, 3.48 Ib.; Dante, 3.14 Ib.; Anatole France, 2.24 Ib. Average: 3.1 Ib...