Word: pound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took some friends to Au Bec Fin, an excellent French restaurant, and a four-course luncheon cost less than $1 a person," the wife of a U.S. businessman who lives in Buenos Aires reported last week. "Movies at five cents, sugar at a penny a pound-if Americans would like the fine, careless rapture of living in 1956 with such items on their budgets, all they have to do is to take the next plane to Bolivia," a U.S. woman wrote from Cochabamba. With the forces of exchange legalization, runaway inflation and currency liberation variously at work, dollar-earners...
...Heath and co-workers decided to take the next step and test the serum extract on human volunteers. Two were found at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Carefully examined by psychiatrists, they showed no trace of latent mental illness. Given only the same tiny dose as a seven-pound monkey, the men developed similar symptoms within five minutes, reaching a peak after about half an hour...
...pound crew races at Princeton, the Tiger varsity again broke the Lake Carnegie Henley distance record in edging Cornell, the Crimson, and Yale. It chopped two and eight-tenths seconds off the Goldthwait Cup time it made last week in defeating the Crimson; the Tigers were clocked...
Derrick Wilde's 150-pound crew went through a very encouraging low-stroke time trial earlier this week. Wilde plans to race his eight at a lesser beat this week as it was generally felt that last Saturday's Goldthwait Cup loss to Princeton, by three-quarters of a length, was largely the fault of too high a clip...
...York last week were paying 50? or lower for choice sirloin in many a store, little more than half the price of a few years ago. One result was that consumers were tucking away more beef than ever. The U.S. will eat 82 lbs. per capita this year, a pound more than in 1955 and almost 50% more than just five years ago, when pork was king. Beef is not only the biggest single item on the U.S. food bill (17? out of every food $1) but it is also the largest single source of U.S. agricultural income. Farmers...