Word: pounds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...West Riding Chamber of Commerce protests against ... the increase of three cents a pound on scoured wool . . . imposed on the riding breeches used by members of the West Riding Chamber of Commerce! No won der Senator Harrison weeps over the situation." TIME, July...
...fire. We maneuvered N. N. E. and scored repeated hits." The invading fleet, besides wrecking New York, claimed to have "blinded" Fort Hancock by the destruction of its observation and control towers and then, sweeping aside a mine field and under cover of low visibility, come close enough to pound the fort to powder. General Hero, however, saw only success in the defense operations under his command. His coast artillery claimed destruction of two battleships, one cruiser, five destroyers, many a seaplane, and the repulse of a night landing party. General Hero, thick-shouldered, grey-haired, blue-eyed, explained...
...League players, he is a small town (Sudlersville, Md.) boy. "I worked on a farm," he says, "and I am glad of it. Farmer boys are stronger than city boys. When I was 12 I could cut corn all day, help in the wheat fields, swing 200-pound bags of phosphate off a platform into a wagon. We had games on the farm to test strength and grip. A fellow had to plant both feet in half a barrel of wheat and then pick up two bushels of wheat or corn and balance them on his shoulders. Another trick...
Senator Smoot: "They are not protests from foreign governments but from interested parties. . . . Take England. The West Riding Chamber of Commerce protests against the duty on wool. What a pity the increase of three cents a pound on scoured wool should be imposed on the riding breeches used by members of the West Riding Chamber of Commerce! No wonder Senator Harrison weeps over the situation...
...common supposition, does not rust, corrode or tarnish. Tin is used by itself chiefly in tinfoil, used in wrapping chocolate bars, cigarets and similar products, and also in the manufacture of collapsible tubing, as in shaving-cream and toothpaste tubes. Tin can be hammered so thin that one pound of tin is enough for 18,500 square inches of tinfoil...