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When grapnels touched "an object" at 73 fathoms (440 feet) submen knew what to expect: at that depth and pressure (almost 200 Ib. per square inch) the old O-9 must have folded, bow to stern, like an accordion. Oil slicked the surface. Cork, from the O-9's inner walls, bobbed up into the glare of searchlights. Pieces of the O-9's deck gratings, flakes of paint appeared. In the press room at the Portsmouth base, a Navy veteran said: "Boys, that...
...automatically get fat by eating. However, Dr. Alfred Steiner of Columbia fattened nine obstinately skinny patients by feeding them approximately three and a half ounces of powdered egg yolks every day in addition to their regular diet. In a few months they gained five to 16 Ib...
...upper schooling in the lightweight, welterweight, middleweight and light-heavyweight classes, had only recently given up his light-heavy title to take a jab at Joe Louis' diadem. The wise money said The Kid should have waited another year. He was fast and smart but he was 25 Ib. lighter than Louis, had no steam behind his punches...
...estimated that by July 1942 there will be an aluminum shortage of at least 200,000 tons. The die casters need about 15,000 tons of aluminum a year to stay in business. The steel industry, using ¾ Ib. of aluminum (as a cleanser) to make a ton of steel, is now using about 30,000 tons. When steel uses aluminum, it uses it up completely, and around a quarter of its products require virgin metal. But die castings need only scrap, and represent a scrap reservoir. Yet all steel has an A-10 or better priority rating on aluminum...
...unit (33,600 lb.) instead of $350, and an end to pure speculation, or 2) an OPACS-imposed price ceiling "considerably below the current price." Cowed, the brokers gulped assent to the margin boost. Next day pepper prices dropped a cent to less than 6½? a Ib.-the sharpest drop in the four-year history of the pepper market...