Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instead of waiting until October. As it was, the auto companies had to come back for more when the assembly lines began to roll out the 1939 model in October. They had no choice but to buy at the copper companies' upped price of 11¼? a pound. Fearful that the price might go higher, they then stocked up with enough to carry them through till April...
Perhaps the finest looking crew that is rowing under the name of Harvard, the hundred and fifty pound Varsity, takes the water against Yale and the Tigers on Lake Carnegie at Princeton tomorrow in a race for the Wright...
...loving Britons will stir less sugar into their afternoon pick-me-up as a result of a half-cent-a-pound increased tariff on sugar...
...engine has 24 cylinders ar ranged in four banks like a double-V. Supercharged and built for streamlining into wings and fuselages, it develops 2,400 h.p., weighs less than a pound per horse power.† Its constant-speed propeller, largest ever built in the U. S., is geared to revolve at lower speed than the engine (because propellers lose efficiency at high speeds). Probable use of the new powerplant: to propel bombers faster than bombers have ever been driven before...
...northern France and Belgium through heaped wreckage and broken walls. Revolutions threatened and populations starved. Joyce in Paris was close to starving too. But help came to him from U. S. and English expatriates. American Poet Robert McAlmon lent him money, Bookshop Owner Sylvia Beach began publishing Ulysses. Ezra. Pound, Idaho's great expatriate, introduced him to Harriet Weaver...