Word: pounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...safe side, Coke's division headquarters in Rio de Janeiro sent along to Rio Preto sample posters, color films for ads, patterns for metal signs, lengthy instruction on how to build billboards, paste up posters, and mix paste (". . . use three gallons of water to each pound of flour . . . Stir up the flour into a batter with cold water...
...retail stores was decontrolled and fish prices zoomed, housewives refused to buy until fishmongers stopped gouging. Grocers, pleading that last year's drought had made vegetables scarce, put their prices up, and housewives stuck to meat & potatoes, turned away from cauliflower at 2/6, cabbage at a shilling a pound...
...According to the Gospel of John, the body of Jesus was wrapped together with "a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight," and though the shroud shows traces of aloes and myrrh, some experts think that 100 Ibs. would have left more of a residue...
...Derby, Connecticut, Yale's 150-pound crew beat the Crimson and Princeton to win the Goldthwaite Cup, the Big Three's lightweight crew's championship. The Elis also won the J.V. and freshman races, all of which were rowed over the Henley distance as was the varsity contest. Harvard placed third in the varsity race and second in the other...
...pound freshman crew elected William T. Wetmore '53 of New York City and Mower Hall as captain. Wet-more rows number...