Word: lb
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...softened up" the country by sustained, concentrated bombardment. Only the first phase of the Battle of Britain began last week. To meet it, 1,250,000 air-raid protection workers were at their posts. Airraid shelters which would withstand anything but 500-lb. bombs within 30 ft. were available for 12,000,000 persons. Ready also were 2,000 first-aid stations, 190,000 ambulances, 300,000 hospital beds. The public was urged to carry clean handkerchiefs or towels, be ready to see and bind up severe wounds. Lovers were warned not to park in country lanes lest they...
Along the steaming highway man and beast jogged, followed by a caravan of 100 cars. Duke-ridden by a no-lb. jockey the first 14 miles, a lighter boy the next 14, and finally a little girl - was trotted for eight minutes, walked for four and rubbed down every ten miles at the request of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The doctor, who fasted for eight days prior to the race to "get the poison out of his system," had no S. P. C. A. to protect him. He just loped along, stopping now & then...
...Common Pleas Court last week two aging tycoons, once inseparable friends, faced each other in bitter litigation. Plaintiff was tiny (5 ft. 3) Frank A. Seiberling, board chairman of Seiberling Rubber Co.. keen and dapper despite his 80 years. On the other side was mystic, eccentric, 275-lb. Edgar B. Davis, 66, oil & rubber man, who has made and spent four fortunes, given away some $6,000,000 to charity and friends because he believed his money "came from the good God himself...
Argentina had 20,000,000 bu. of surplus wheat, 300,000,000 bu. of corn, 500,000,000 Ib. of beef. Brazil had over 400,000 bales of cotton, plus her chronically astronomical coffee surplus (around 1,700,000,000 lb.). Canada had 300,000,000 bu. of wheat, and 70,000,000 lb. of pork and bacon all dressed up with no place to go. Cuba was carrying about 1,000,000 tons of sugar. Uruguay was loaded with 120,000,000 lb. of beef...
...well under the first-quarter peak. Ecuador, for lack of foreign exchange, last week had to duck out of her reciprocal trade agreement and cut some imports by 50%. The Pan American Coffee Conference, meeting in Manhattan last week, tried to decide what to do with 924,000,000 lb. of coffee that used to go annually to Europe. Other hemispheric surpluses, directly competitive with U. S. crops, overhung the U. S. farmer...