2818, and provided for an increase in fees, paid for by each importer or consignee of tea, of from 3.5 cents to .10 cents per
hundred weight.
There are lovely little pubs that still have proper ale pumps on the bar, wooden beams, brass ornaments, frayed seat cushions, tables crying out for the attention of French polishers, that red patterned carpet you see in all real hostelries and that stale pubby smell born of a half
hundred weight of Old Holborn the night before.
The 1998 feeder calf prices were about $12 per
hundred weight (cwt) lower than in 1997, and wheat prices were down about 50 cents per bushel.
Measuring five feet across and having an area of fifteen square feet, it weighed fifteen
hundred weight and boasted a pendulum of two hundredweight, a main wheel and barrel and a bed of three hundredweight.
On a per
hundred weight basis, both wheat and barley are approximately $.04/ pounds, suggesting that the feed value for wheat is currently an effective floor under wheat prices.
Scoff a half
hundred weight of bangers and some salad
Sit down in a half
hundred weight of paper and sigh.
So buy a half
hundred weight of vitamins and start eating them like there is no tomorrow, determined not to get the flu.
