Word: pound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...textile industry has a legitimate complaint when it comes to the price of cotton. Since cotton prices are supported by the U.S., domestic mills must pay 6? more a pound for U.S. cotton than buyers abroad pay for the same product. As a result, last year's imports of yarn leaped 14 times above 1959, increasing from 1,000,000 lbs. to 14,216,000 lbs. last year...
...vision of an England where the pound is steady, the sun is usually shining and the club goes on forever is perhaps essentially the daydream of a perennial expatriate; Wodehouse has spent two-thirds of his adult life in the U.S. But the author builds his country houses in the air with such zest, charm and comic invention that they are always worth the price of the tour...
...afternoon B.A.A. field events at Briggs Cage, the varsity's Tom Blodgett took first place in the broad jump and Stan Doten placed second in the 35-pound weight...
...empty cells and almost as light as air. Miss Raskin's particles can be colored, and they fall 1,250 times slower than solid smoke particles of the same size. Collected in the form of a fine powder, eleven gallons of holey smoke particles weigh less than one pound...
Manufacturers who use the bean were grumbling about the higher prices, now 13% above the November level. Procter & Gamble, followed by a host of other companies, raised wholesale prices of bulk shortening by 1? per Ib. Kraft Foods warned that it might have to increase the price on a pound of margarine by a penny or so when its present supply of soybean oil is exhausted. Poultry and cattle feed producers also expected to have to raise prices to offset the increased cost of the soybean. There is little prospect of early relief for the processors. The price of soybeans...