Word: pound
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cent of the copper that is traded in the world, more than 3,000,000 tons per year. But copper prices are set in the London metal markets. Chile, three years ago for instance, got an average price for copper yearly of more than 62 cents per pound, and each cent that the price goes up or down means 18 million dollars more or less in income for our country...
Like last year, the greatest UMass threat is 6 ft.-5 in. 210-pound quarterback, Peil Pennington. Pennington, if he has sufficiently recovered from a thigh injury suffered earlier in the year, could give the Crimson defensive backfield nightmares that won't go away...
Restic indicated that he would go with experience whenever possible in his starting lineup. But in the offensive line, manpower shortages have forced him to start two sophomores: Carl Culig at center, and 6 ft.-5 in. 265-pound Dan Jiggetts at tackle...
...last March of Whitehall and the Old Bailey courthouse. Shortly before 1 p.m. on the same day, a youth described by witnesses as "not even old enough to shave" tossed a paper bag into a passageway at busy King's Cross station. With a deafening roar, a three-pound gelignite bomb went off, spraying the lunch-hour crowd with glass and debris and injuring five people...
...patterns of lighting for both centers and edges of runways, as well as brighter, low-glare runway signs for pilots, will now become mandatory. TAMS also persuaded the FAA that conventional twelve-inch runways were not thick enough. DFW uses 17 inches of concrete, enough to receive million-pound aircraft (a fully loaded, stretched 747 weighs 880,000 lbs.). Furthermore, the runways are designed for thickening to 24 inches to accommodate heavier aircraft now on the drawing boards−and possibly even rocket-powered airliners of the future...