Word: kilos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last year the Harvardmen produced two cocoons whose silk was "hot" enough to impress their images on a photographic film. This year they hope to grow a kilo (2.2 lbs.) of the stuff for themselves and colleagues to study. The hot silk, even in this quantity, will not be a menace. Even if it should escape from the laboratory and get itself woven into underwear, it is not strong enough to damage the most sensitive skin...
Strategic Error. The Voice's opportunity was originally of Russian making. To reach its own people over vast Russian distances, the Soviet government built many short-wave (6,000 to 21,000-kilo-cycle) transmitters and distributed about 5,000,000 short-wave receivers to listeners. This proved a strategic mistake. Under good conditions, short-wave listeners could also hear programs from as far away as the U.S. and Manila...
...occupation, had a reconversion to private enterprise. "Our fields," he announced, "yield 20% uranium. They are the world's richest. Now is the time to get in on the ground floor. There's plenty of good uranium land available here. Since uranium is selling for $278 the kilo in Belgium, it's a fine commercial proposition . . ." In similar booster style, Land Dealer Jean Michelet took aside a visiting TIME correspondent, confided: "Come, now, I am too experienced to believe that you are a journalist. You represent American financial interests anxious to buy in on this...
...crossbred them. Finally he had a black soybean. He named it Santa Maria. Slightly smaller and softer than the common bean, it has none of the bitter aftertaste of the ordinary soybean. More important, it is chock full of proteins and contains all the known vitamins except C. One kilo is equal in protein to six dozen eggs or twelve pints of milk, items always scarce in the Latin American diet. It is also cheaper than the regular bean: 1.50 bolivars per kilo (45?) instead of 2.50 bolivars...
Less Fun. Inflation has spoiled the fun. Bargaining has become shrill, bitter, desperate. When the housewife asks why tomatoes have jumped 10% overnight, why beans which cost 50 centavos a kilo in 1940 now cost 1.65 pesos, the stall-keeper glibly blames la situation Rusa or la inundation de Florida. Unconvinced that the Russians or the Florida hurricane has any connection, the housewife calls for witnesses to behold how she is being robbed; she may shout the top-drawer insult hambreador (hunger-maker), wind up with a call for el paredón (wall used as a backstop for firing...