Word: pounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chester Novak, an arthritis-ridden Milwaukee invalid, traded a 3-? bottle of liniment for a bar of soap, the soap for a pound of butter and the butter for a case of pop. By judicious barter he finally parlayed the pop into $65 worth of miscellaneous goods, hoped finally to end up with a television...
...border town of Bint-Jebeil (see cut), with a population of 6,000, had put up 5,000 guests. In Transjordan's capital city of Amman, more than a thousand were holed up in the dank underground galleries of the ancient Roman amphitheater. Their ration was a pound of dark bread...
Land fell on Gaza (seat of the Mufti's new Arab government in Palestine). Arab forces opened up on Jewish settlements in the Negeb with 100-pound guns. Both sides rejected a U.N. cease fire order...
Veteran tuna fishermen from all over the northeast had to bow to Rodman A. Sharp '51 recently when he handed the season's biggest fish--an 850-pound bluefin at Wedgeport, Nova Scotia...
...exploration work in the wilderness everything had to be flown in, from beef to bulldozers. At first, air freight cost Hollinger 73? a pound. By last April Jules Timmins had his own airlift operating from Seven Islands to the airstrip at Knob Lake. This season it carried 750 tons, at an average cost of 7? a pound...