Word: pound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson kept selling what he could sell, and giving away the rest. In three years more than 600 million pounds were donated for welfare use (e.g., school lunches) at home and abroad, and some 300 million pounds were sold, some at reduced prices for export. Last week Benson announced the startling results of his efforts: the U.S. Government is fresh out of surplus butter, will go into the peak milk-producing season beginning April 1 without an unsold pound on its shelves...
...Sauvie Island outbreak was stopped by putting almost a pound of antibiotics in every ton of turkey feed. But where the turkeys get the virus remained a mystery. The Columbia River's wild ducks were suspected because they mooch free meals in the turkey runs. But Dr. Donald Mason (on loan to Oregon from the U.S. Public Health Service) admitted: "We may never know whether the ducks gave the disease to the turkeys, or vice versa...
...Pound for pound, the most wanted metal in the U.S. today is nickel. Last week it commanded the highest premium paid for any metal on the grey market-$3 a lb., five times the going rate. With Government stockpiles and defense users gobbling up 40% of the free world's total output (v. only 10% for copper), automakers alone had to pay out more than $21 million last year in grey market premiums for the precious hardener for bumpers, crankshafts and a dozen other parts. The shortage is so critical that the Administration, while getting out of business elsewhere...
...Days. In Los Angeles, Myron C. Pagan and his son Bruce brought a $2,995 damage suit against Clifford Lee Smith after their 60-pound Airedale dropped dead of a heart attack when Smith's two smaller dogs barked...
They will be shot by rockets with a 27,000 pound thrust to circulate at a speed of five miles per second for an indefinite duration, he explained...