Word: ib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spanish names made tragic news: Madrid reported that Mario, son of the late, best-selling Novelist Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse), had been sentenced to twelve years in prison on a charge of having once been a Mason. He might get a commutation: he is paralyzed, deaf and nearly blind...
Canada still had meat because she had kept rationing, along with her price controls. Normally, Americans get more meat than Canadians (1946 estimated per capita consumption: American, 141 Ibs.; Canadian, 136 Ibs.). But Canada had not mismanaged her meat supply the way the U.S. had (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Now she had ample meat and low prices, stable at their ceilings (about 33? a Ib. for prime rib roast, 37? a Ib. for veal chops, 49?^ a Ib. for porterhouse steak...
...Barrier; 1912-Gene Stratton Porter's The Harvester; 1914-Eleanor H. Porter's Polly anna. 1916-Booth Tarkington's Seventeen. Harold Bell Wright's When a Man's a Man; 1917-H. G. Wells's Mr. Britling Sees It Through; 1919-V. Blasco Ibáñez's The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Henry Adams' The Education of Henry Adams; 1921-Sinclair Lewis' Main Street; 1922-A. S. M. Hutchinson's If Winter Comes; 1923-Gertrude Ather-ton's Black Oxen; 1924-Edna Ferber...
...painted DC-3s flying chilled beef to the capital from distant llano towns like Ciudad Bolivar, on the Orinoco, and San Fernando de Apure. This week work was expected to start on another slaughterhouse at Barinas. Already caraqueños found llano meat in the markets at 27? a Ib. Last spring they had paid three times as much...
...reasons:1) quarantine restrictions keep them out of most European countries, which grow a good many potatoes anyway; 2) in overseas shipping, handling costs and spoilage run high; 3) dehydrated potatoes cost about 25? a lb., as compared to 5? or 6? a Ib. for wheat...