Word: ib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blasting at those cinnabar-streaked granite tunnel walls, bringing out sacks of ore every day, to be "cooked" in the retorts there on the steep shank of the mountain. A week or so ago "Hap" brought out one rock that was might' nigh pure cinnabar. It weighed 130 Ib. He brought it through seven miles of tunnel from the very gizzard of the ancient mine...
...picture on the town's official stationery, and the new champion was fixing to buy a ranch with the $10,000 he had earned in seven minutes. "Bring on Henry Armstrong next," drawled the Sweetwater Swatter, itching to get his anvil-strong hands on the welterweight (147 Ib.) champion. "In 30 rounds, Armstrong couldn't knock out the boy ah knocked out in three, so ah ought to do all right with Henry," he added...
...sold to a giant (6 ft. 3 in., 235 Ib.) newspaperman, Burridge Davenal Butler, owner of The Prairie Farmer, oldest (99 years) of its kind in the U. S. Owner Butler made WLS a public servant in the Midwest. Most famed alumnus of WLS programs is Gene Autry, who once sang on the Barn Dance. So did Ruth Etting, at first for nothing and then for $5 a night. Tony Wons read poetry and streamlined Shakespeare for the station. Fibber McGee & Molly worked there before they adopted those names, as did Charles J. Correll and Freeman F. Gosden, now known...
...bleached and ground the leaves of wheat, barley, oats and rye, produced a white powder with a slight malt flavor. The scientists ate this grass all winter, caught no colds, enjoyed excellent health. Three U. S. factories and one Canadian are now making powdered grass. Approximate cost: 6? per Ib...
...commercial production is the Idaho Almaden near Weiser, Idaho, discovered by a sheepherder in 1936, leased and run by Lawrence Kendall Requa, son of Herbert Hoover's late friend and booster, Mark Requa. Vice presidents of Idaho Almaden are Sons Allan and Herbert Hoover Jr. Producing around 500 Ib. of mercury a day, their mine has made money from its start...