Word: lb
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...lb. sandbag used as a counterweight accidentally crashed at the feet of Ethel Waters, star of The Member of the Wedding, as she took her curtain call in a Broadway theater. Unfazed, even though the weight had missed her by inches, she quoted a line from the hymn she sings in the play: "His eye is on the sparrow and I know He watches...
...farm surpluses, the Commodity Credit Corp. last week started something like a giveaway program. It listed eleven Government-held agricultural products for sale to U.S. exporters at cut rates for resale abroad. Some of the bargains: ¶CJ 73 million Ibs. of dried eggs, originally bought at $1.30 a lb., now on sale at 40? a lb...
...Potatoes, which CCC is now buying at $2.10 a hundredweight, available at 1? a 100-lb. sack...
...million Ibs. of Mexican canned meat & gravy, purchased for about 30? a lb., pricetagged at 15? a lb...
...case, the Government's rubber experts agreed that synthetic rubber would be a firmly established competitor of natural rubber within a few years. At its current price of 180? a lb., natural rubber has a slight edge over synthetic, priced at 18½?. But the presidential report anticipated that new techniques might soon bring down synthetic's price...