Word: lb
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...prison Rhee got the treatment considered fitting for top-rank political offenders. He was subjected to daily torture -finger mashing, beating with three-cornered rods, burning of oil paper around the arms. He wore a 20-lb. weight around his neck, was kept handcuffed and locked in stocks...
Stored in a Liverpool warehouse, until she can figure out what to do with it: a 447-lb. bale of raw cotton wrapped in red plaid, a gift to Princess Elizabeth from the cotton farmers of Edinburg, Texas...
...prize-a 150-lb. calf-went to a Bologna leftist named Armando Baldinelli. His oil of peasants parading with pitchforks was straightforward enough, but it was also as pedestrian as it was proletarian. Other artists carted off such prizes as an irrigation pump, a pony, fertilizer, tomato paste, sausages, and of course cheeses...
Rumbling-voiced, 250-lb. Lee Hays, 35, started as a youngster in Arkansas, learned many of his favorites from country congregations when he was an itinerant preacher in his student days. Manhattan-born Pete Seeger, 31, left Harvard to thumb his way across country to see what he could pick up in the way of American folk songs. On the road he learned to play the oldfashioned, long-necked banjo, later worked as folk archivist in the Library of Congress. Guitarist Fred Hellerman, 24, and pretty, clear-voiced Ronnie Gilbert, 24, developed their taste for folk music while they were...
Actually, as President Alan Grant of Manhattan's C. T. Wilson & Co. (importers) told the subcommittee, the fact that the U.S. was short of rubber was the Government's own fault. It could have bought all the rubber it wanted for stockpiling at 16? a lb. last November; now it has to pay 55? simply because world demand is so great and Russia is buying huge quantities...