Word: ibs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Curtiss planes used are of a new commercial type called "Carrier Pigeons." The transport company is maintaining ten of them, each costing: $20,000. Specifications: 400-horse Liberty motor, 42-ft. wingspread, 28 ft. long, 12 ft. high, 3,500 Ib. weight, average speed 100 miles per hour. The heaviest load carried on the first day was 276½lb. of mail (about 10,000 letters). The first day's total postage: $8,411.14. The post-office rates: 10? an ounce between Chicago and Dallas; 15? an ounce to points east of Chicago...
...serve: Pole Vault: A. C. Gilbert, Yale; Judge: Mark S. Wright, Dartmouth, Measurer. Throwing the Javelin: Allan Winter Rowe, M. I. T., Judge; James A. Leyden, Penn State, and Leslie H. Simons, Princeton, Measurers. Throwing the Discus: Walter Tufts, Harvard, Judge; J. E. Hickley, Brown, Measurer. Putting, the 16 Ib. Shot: E. L. Hopkins, B. A. A., Judge; J. R. Truesdale, Princeton, and J. B. Mulford, Pennsylvania, Measurers. High Jump: Wesley Aler, Yale, Judge; Barrett Smith, Cornell, and Rush M. Hoag, Michigan, Measurers. Throwing the Hammer; F. X. McGrath, B. A. A., Judge; H. F. Barker, Princeton, and N. Shennan...
Wilkins. Safely returned to Fairbanks after their fourth hop over the 560 miles of desolate northern Alaska between Fairbanks and their advanced base, Point Barrow, Captain George H. Wilkins and Pilot Ben Eielson took on a load of freight heavier than ever-4,200 Ib. of fuel and food-and soared northward again. This time their radio was silent for hours that stretched into two days. The men in Fairbanks hoped it was only a wrist Wilkins had sprained during the second round-trip that was preventing him from operating the monoplane Alaskan's wireless outfit...
...Forbes did not try to avoid prison on account of his health. Because of a stroke of paralysis a year ago, he limped as he went to Leavenworth. Although he is only 47 he is bent and grey, with perhaps only 150 Ib. of his usual 225 Ib. remaining...
...until quite recently have the smaller sizes suited for household use been extensively made or sold. The "ice interests," if such there be, have not yet expressed an opinion upon this new and formidable electrical rival. But the National Electric Light Association estimated that (ice costing 60c. per 100 Ib. and electricity 5.3c. per kilowatt hour) in a temperature of 70° the electric refrigerator would consume 2.62 kilowatt hours per day and the icebox would consume 40 Ibs. of ice. Thus, for such a day, the cost of the electric refrigerator would be 13.89c., against...