Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trouble with the candy industry is that anyone can go into business with a few pounds of sugar and a kettle. Before the War candy was primarily for children. War made the armies crave the quick-burning carbohydrates of candy which their governments did not supply. After the War candy became a $400,000,000 industry, with only 47 others ahead of it in size and importance. Last week the National Confectioners Association, reshuffled by Depression and reunited by an NRA code, met in convention in Manhattan and announced that candy sales for 1934's first four months were...
...Rajpipla who bought Windsor Lad as a yearling for ?1.300 and who had made Derby Day a holiday on his estate at Old Windsor, watched his horse and smiled. At the head of the stretch, the crowd saw three horses- Windsor Lad, Lord Woolavington's Easton and Colombo-pound out in front of the field. In the stretch Colombo was running splendidly and catching up on the other two. At the finish-in 2:34 to equal last year's track record-Windsor Lad was still ahead with Easton second and Colombo third...
...defenses in this country is quite complete by sea and air, and is reviewed every year. ... If the air estimates were brought in this day, or if a statement were made this day with regard to any increase in the air force, it might well be months before a pound could be spent. . . . These very points are at this moment under consideration . . . so if our fears are realized not a single day will have been lost...
...Ross did not beat the 3?-per-pound tax on vegetable and animal oils. Procter & Gamble, largest user of whale oil in the U. S., must pay a duty of $1,350,000, a figure approximately equal to the total value of the oil. *Named for Sir James Clark Ross who discovered it 80 years before...
Freshman 150-pound-Yale at Derby...