Word: kilos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your address to the Chamber of Deputies in which you touched on the decrease in the cost of living you said that in Rome one may buy bread for as little as 1.30 lire per kilo [about 5? per pound] and you added I have bought it myself...
...Mexican products, which provide him with all he needs, a peso has the buying power of a pre-inflation dollar. Oranges cost three centavos (less than one penny). Avocado pears cost the same. The staples, black beans and pink rice, cost usually 20 centavos a kilo, which is more than two pounds. That's 2½? a pound. And if you've eaten black bean paste with chili sauce and Mexican pink rice, you know you don't have to feel sorry for anyone who makes it his daily fare...
...behalf of our Dutch friends, especially several pilot friends, members of the bombing squadron at the above mentioned affair, we wish to rectify. We refer to the bombing account which tended to impress that the bombers' marksmanship was a bit poor. The fact is but one small 50 Kilo (110. 25 Ib.) bomb was dropped-a direct hit- the finish...
...months Balkans Products produced a "snow" storm of 1,500 kilograms-one and one-half tons-of heroin, all of which, according to Chief Russell, was smuggled into France and Germany in double-bottomed trunks, en route for the U. S., Egypt and the Far East. One kilo of heroin equals 250,000 medical doses. At this rate Balkans Products is producing 187,500,000 medical doses monthly, or a double dose for 3,000,000 dope fiends daily...
...during the qualifying heats for the Thompson race that Doolittle broke the record, after failing to do so on two consecutive days. The first day he flashed back & forth four times over the 3-kilo-metre course he was clocked at an average of 293 m.p.h. Then it was discovered that someone had neglected to install in his plane a barograph, necessary for official recognition of his flight. Next day he had the barograph but a quartering wind slowed him to 282 m.p,h.?.77 less than the necessary margin over the old record. On that day spectators feared...