Word: lb
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Emerging victorious from a field of 42 in the boxing tournament held Tuesday and Wednesday were Franken in the 115-lb. class, Regal in the 125, Passeneau in 135, 145 Kelly, Polanski in 155, D'Autremont in 165, Hinchcliffe in 175, and Brody in the unlimited. Regal, Polanski, and Hinchcliffe all won by technical knockouts...
...Metals, price-cutting on copper continued (TIME, Jan. 29). The industry followed Kennecott down to 11¼? a lb. (war boom high: 13?), still failed to induce new orders. By now U. S. coppermen have become bearish on war export prospects (except to Russia-see p. 69). The trade anticipates a 33% cut in output if reordering does not save it in the next few weeks. Lead prices were cut twice in as many weeks for the same reason...
Last week in Boston, the 280-lb. Angel took on his first comer, Luigi Bacigalupi, 275-lbs. ringside. In the Boston Arena, 7,000 wrestling fans (twice the usual number) stood on their chairs as the Angel trod up the aisle. In the ring, Bacigalupi whanged the Angel's cowcatcher jaw with a barrage of forearm wallops. The Angel only growled, waded in, got a headlock, a full nelson, a head scissors, an armlock, and then the hold the fans were waiting for -his touted bear hug. He simply crooked his cordwood arms around Luigi's vast circumference...
...from up around Tellico Plains, in the Great Smokies, on hand to hear a straight-limbed, sixth-generation mountain girl sing a song her grandpappy taught her. The girl was 23-year-old Edith Haas Padgett, famed far & wide in the hills for once having bagged a charging 400-lb. wild boar with a single rifle shot...
...week off from the opera, he makes for the woods of Maine or North Dakota, where he prowls around with a brass hunting horn and a brace of dogs, gunning for ducks, rabbits, deer. He has shot panthers in South America, once bagged a 1,600-lb. bison in North Dakota. In New Brunswick he shot a bear, had it dressed and smoked and toted the meat back to his Manhattan apartment. For weeks smoked shanks and shoulders cluttered the Melchior home, hung in closets, dangled out the windows over busy Broadway. He tried to eat it all, but failed...