Word: lb
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...policeman, was patrolling his beat on the Lake Superior waterfront when the propeller of a passing ship stunned a fish and knocked it to the surface. A seagull swooped down, grabbed the fish, then dropped it on the dockside at Turner's feet. It was a 2½-lb. pickerel...
...William Bauer of Kingston, Ont. caught a 32-inch pike, but that was not all. Inside the pike was a large-mouthed bass, inside the bass a perch and inside the perch a minnow. Paul Maki of Port Arthur pulled a 2-lb. pickerel from Black Sturgeon Lake with a 3-lb. pike gripping the pickerel's tail...
Last week the proprietors of a traveling circus playing Wuppertal decided to combine the talents of the district's flying streetcars with those of their own earth-bound star, a 450-lb. heifer elephant named Tuffi...
This is the most effective U.S. antitank weapon yet used in Korea. The Big Bazooka (3.5 in.) shoots an 8½-lb. rocket whose shaped charge can penetrate about eleven inches of armor; it is used mostly for close-in fighting...
...University of Denver Industrial Research Institute. Working under Colonel Victor C. Huffsmith, the project's scientists have laid out a rough cross with 100-mile arms on the flat plains of eastern Colorado. Spaced 20 miles apart on the arms are detonation points where the explosion of 200-lb. charges of TNT will send powerful sound waves into the sky. At points on a circle 160 miles from the center of the cross, complicated sets of microphones mounted on two trucks will listen for the waves when they return to earth...