Word: lb
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Willkie car the way a flood does in the desert when it washes out the road. Before the car reached his old high school for a brief preliminary ceremony, it was stuck solidly for 15 minutes, in a temperature of 102°; only Wendell Willkie's 220 lb. kept him from being pulled from the car by handshakers; he shook each hand that was offered and did not lose his smile. But in the school building from which as a boy he had been twice expelled, he seemed to lose his vitality and sat down almost in exhaustion...
...Chippewas in peace to gather the rice and grind it into a rich, tangy meal. Then hunters spread the word that wild rice made good eating with game. Doctors and dietitians prescribed it for dyspeptics and people who were allergic to other cereals. Prices rose (to around $1 per lb., retail, for packaged wild rice). Greedy whites moved into the rice fields of north-central Minnesota, began to push out the Chippewas. Motorboats and rude, unaccustomed hands destroyed the wild plants, breaking nature's cycle of renewal...
...them that Hitler's war had saved her business. Army men, who got to Dover first, had all the girls, so newspapermen spent their evenings playing ping-pong in the hotel basement. Their favorite character was a bloated barrage balloon which they named Sefton Delmer. after a 252-lb. reporter for the London Daily Express. Shot down in flames one day last week, Delmer was their only casualty. Few hours later, Delmer II slowly ascended into the twilight above Dover...
...began working with less expensive iron & steel alloys, he found to his surprise that his coloring process immensely improved corrosion resistance. Last week the "American Cellini's" researches led him to the threshold of National Defense. He announced a process for Bachiting cheap black plate iron (3? per lb.), which, he claims, makes the metal a substitute for tin plate. Tin is important in tin cans because it resists corrosion by food acids. Bachited iron, said Bach, had a corrosion resistance against "most corrosive agents" higher than that of tin plate ( 5? per lb.) or 18-8stainless steel...
...match and another 100 straight in the shoot-off - after which you're knotted with six other guys." As the week wore on, it seemed almost so. Even the women began to make perfect scores look like child's play. First, Mrs. M. L. Smythe, a 96-lb. Aurora, Ohio housewife, broke 100 straight - the first century ever chalked up by a woman in a national skeet tournament. Then, 19-year-old Patricia Laursen, a Rollins College junior, often called America's most beautiful athlete, scored another...