Word: ibs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Debussy: Ibéria (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra conducted by Fritz Reiner; Columbia; 5 sides). Magically scented music of old Spain, performed with rare imagination...
Sailor Forsdal made it. When a Coast Guard vessel picked up the two men they were so heavily coated with congealed oil that they weighed (the Coast Guard captain estimated) 500 Ib. apiece...
...Worked-out cotton fields, turned to pasture, will yield 149 Ib. of beef per acre. But if nearby streams are dammed with earth and the fields shallowly flooded, they will yield as much as 600 Ib. of catfish, bass or bream, at a much lower cost per acre. So announced the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station last week. Like fields, the ponds must be strewn with commercial fertilizer (100 Ib. per acre), so that aquatic plants will flourish...
...enormous increase in U.S. aluminum and magnesium production was authorized by WPB this week. The program calls for an annual output of 2,000,000,000 Ib. of aluminum, 700,000,000 Ib. of magnesium-the first a 35%, the second a 75% increase in capacity previously planned...
...staple imports, chiefly from Egypt,* are not to be depended on. And if U.S. production of long-staple cotton booms (the Government is now encouraging it with special subsidies), U.S. spindles to spin it are limited, even on a three-shift basis, to a maximum of 4,000,000 Ib. a year. If all of that were spun into the best hosiery yarn, it would take care of only about 3% of the normal U.S. women's hosiery market. Furthermore, long-staple cotton has important defense uses, such as powder bags, balloons. Upshot: many a girl who used...