Word: ib
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large livestock. A good animal can be bought for $40. In summer they help keep mowing costs down. Regularly bred ewes add one or two lambs a year, which can be either sold for meat or used to increase the flock. The shepherd can expect to obtain about 10 Ibs. of fleece per sheep a year, which can either be spun or sold for an average price of $1 per Ib...
...gather in some dollars. Each week Dairy land Wholesale, an ice cream producer in Helena, Mont., loads up a truck with 7,200 Popsicles, Fudgesicles and various kinds of ice cream, and has the whole thing flown to Bahrain, in the Persian Gulf. The air freight is $1 per Ib. (about 20? per Popsicle) and the goodies sell for about 30? apiece in Bahrain. "This is an experiment to see how it works out," says the manager of the plant. The Arabs' reaction so far, however, has been less than enthusiastic...
Since 1973 the price of aluminum has jumped from 25? per Ib. to 53?. The gap between supply and demand, some industry leaders assert, will drive the price considerably higher, at least to 60? by the early 1980s. Earnings of the big four, Alcoa, Alcan, Reynolds and Kaiser, which control nearly three-quarters of the U.S. market, have climbed sharply. With considerable understatement, W.H. Krome George, chief executive of Alcoa, says, "For once in our life we have been fairly lucky. Things are rolling along pretty good...
After monopolizing a second team position for three years, D'Agostino climbed to the top of the 190-Ib. heap, thanks to a 7-5 victory over last year's All-Ivy choice, Joe Cooper of Yale, in February...
...looking for a close encounter with a Harvard grappler, then tie up with 118-Ib. Wrestler Ray Dominguez on a side court, or try climbing over the back of heavyweight Craig Beling to snatch a rebound off the glass on center-court...