Word: ibs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last fortnight Donald and his twin brother Eugene cut their high-school classes, hitchhiked from their Long Island home to a Marine Corps recruiting office in Manhattan. Eugene (190 Ib.) got in. Donald (214 Ib...
Donald hitchhiked back home, went on a diet of fruit juice and soup, pounded his muscles, chopped down trees, sweated in a steam bath. Last week, 14 Ib. lighter, he took the Marine Corps oath-then rushed to a hamburger stand...
...would do so again. Had the election been held last week, while the memory of President Aguirre was warm in the minds of Chileans, his party's candidate would have been almost a sure winner. If time further divides the Leftist elements and brings the Rightists together, General Ibáñez may be a candidate to reckon with...
Until he left Shanghai last September, Alcott's daily newscasts over Station XMHA were for four years the sharpest thorn in the side of Axis propagandists. Early marked by Axis gunmen and terrorists, he packed his tough 220 Ib. in a bullet-proof vest, bought a .45 and carried on. During the last two years he observed the handiwork of Tokyo's German advisers in coordinating stations in Manchukuo, Nanking and Shanghai with Tokyo's Government-operated Station JOAK and its Domei News Agency line of talk. Latest and ugliest trend in that talk: that the Japanese...
Simple to produce, guayule rubber has never before got out of the pin-money class, mainly because it costs 12-15? a Ib. v. 5-10? for plantation rubber. It is too soft to replace tree rubber completely in the vast tire and inner-tube market, is chiefly used (especially by Goodrich) for impregnating the cotton strands in belting, shoes, raincoats, etc. Hence Intercontinental has never produced more than 5,000 tons a year (less than 1% of U.S. consumption); it has lost money in eight of the last twelve years; its 1940 profits were only $324,000, about...