Word: lb
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Bears had a great team, all right. They were big and fast - and from their T formation those 250-lb. tanks masquerading in football pants could whizz along like an armored column. But 8-to-5 favorites? Nuts! Washington had His Excellency Slingin' Sammy Baugh, "the best football pitcher in the world." The Redskins also had three of pro football's best pass receivers. Only two clubs had succeeded in stopping Washington's air attack all season. And the big, bad Bears were not one of them...
...bearings (for autos, radios, etc.). With the U. S. supply virtually exhausted seven months ago, Glidden Co. put $100,000 into a new plant at Hammond, Ind. to make powdered metals, last week was turning out ten tons of powdered iron daily, selling at 14½ to 17? a lb.-within a hair's breadth of what the imported price used...
...each year's crop. It was cheaper than paying U. S. labor to gather their own. Foreseeing a shortage, Oregon beet farmers planted 1,000 acres of seed for 1940 harvest, nearly doubled the acreage for 1941. It has been a profitable operation. Selling at 7½? a lb., beet seed nets Oregonians a neat $125 an acre...
...worked at developing a variety of paprika which would grow in profitable quantity in California's soil and climate. Last year he thought he had it, sowed 100 acres with his first crop. It came up in time to meet a market deprived of some 4,500,000 lb. of annual imports from Spain and Hungary. Spice houses gobbled up 60 tons of Seed Man Brown's dehydrated paprika powder, grossing...
...publicity stunt, Safeway's refusal to go along on the increased markup was in line with a basic policy laid down by its industrious. 130-lb. president, Lingan Alan Warren. "When you get wide spreads you are vulnerable," Warren once said. "That is why Safeway does not believe in making too much profit on any one thing." It was also, as events turned out, insurance that Safeway need feel no qualms when Thurman Arnold's men get to Colorado...