Word: 000th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Typical contraband seized by the British last month: auto clutch plates hidden under a load of fish, 2,712 Ibs. of scrap iron disguised as ballast, 82 tons of asphalt passing as dirty, but legal, coal tar. The British concede that about 200 tons of merchandise - about 1,000th of Hong Kong's intake-gets across to the Communists every week. Even with what goes in to Macao and Lap Sap Mei, it is not enough for the building of industrial China. Only peace and a resumption of normal trade would do that...
...with moving rolls of film the U.C. camera has two stationary strips of film and a bank of lenses. A thin mirror, spinning at 10,000 r.p.m., flashes the moving image from lens to lens down the film strips. As many as 100 snapshots can be taken in 1/120,000th of a second. Probable purpose of the superspeed camera: to photograph the luminous, super sonic shock wave from the early stages of exploding A-bombs...
Outside the Miller Brewing Co.'s big new Milwaukee brewhouse last week, President Fred Miller, 46, helped two of his oldest workmen roll out the 3,000,000th barrel of Miller High Life Beer made in 1952. This output, said Fred Miller, boosted the company from sixth to fifth biggest...
...half an hour on CBS radio last week, two oldtimers reminisced nostalgically about their quarter-century on the air in the golden age of radio. It was the 10,000th time before the microphones for Amos 'n' Andy (Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll...
...cars). Cheap ($1,095), economical (36 miles per gallon), and with a top speed of 70 m.p.h. from its aircooled four-cylinder engine, the Volkswagen is also beginning to edge into transatlantic markets. Volkswagen's total U.S. sales have already reached 1,200; it recently shipped its 3,000th car to Brazil, and this week, for the first time, invaded Canada...