Word: kilos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began developing his theory in 1951, when he and a friend were caught in a storm while venturing across the English Channel in a small rubber boat. The craft tossed about for five days, and in that time Bombard and his companion had nothing to eat except half a kilo of butter they had brought along as a gift for a friend in England. This experience would have soured most men on seafaring for life, but in Bombard it kindled a consuming interest in the techniques of survival. Bombard persuaded a Dutch manufacturer of lifeboat and liferaft equipment to finance...
Frenchmen like Pinay because he boldly attacked the problem that troubled them most: high retail prices. In his four weeks in office, butter prices had fallen from 880 to 760 francs per kilo; milk and cheese were down 15%. Pinay had worked no miracles (meat prices are still rising). As a right-wing businessman, he had merely consulted the men he knows best: France's business leaders. He persuaded department-store owners to back a price reduction campaign. He called it "Save the Franc." Some cynical shoppers thought the price cuts were more apparent than real; still, they were...
...stand ard international radio procedures around the world, brought out a new alphabet which it believed would be more universally pronounceable. The old and the new : OLD NEW Able Alfa Baker Bravo Charlie Coca Dog Delta Easy Echo Fox Foxtrot George Golf How Hotel Item India Jig Juliett King Kilo Love Lima Mike Metro Nan Nectar Oboe Oscar Peter Papa Queen Quebec Roger Romeo Sugar Sierra Tare Tango Uncle Union Victor Victor William Whisky X Ray Extra Yoke Yankee Zebra Zulu The U.S. will probably swing over to the new words by 1952's fall. Until then, risking confusion...
Inflation is fast robbing the people of their pretty green, blue and purple paper money; a kilo of black meat now costs an average day's wages-twice the price of a month ago. Chelow-kabab, the famed national dish of rice and meat, which cost 15 rials 60 days ago, is now 30. Poor Iranians grumbled: "Chelow-kabab is a royal dish now. Too rich to swallow." Bricklayer Hassan Rezaie expressed a growing bewilderment: "They tell me that oil has been nationalized. But the good life has not yet come." It was a dangerous game the British...
Something Soft in the Cellar. Novelist Bory, an inveterate courtroom spectator, discovered Sylvie soon after the war,when she was haled into court for stealing from her sister-in-law's Paris apartment seven dresses, six blouses, a kilo of sugar, a rabbit-fur vest, 10.000 francs and the stuffed head of a Pyrenean lizard. The judges sentenced her to three months in prison. Novelist Bory then & there determined to make Sylvie the heroine of his next book. The novel Fragile, or the Basket of Eggs* became a bestseller...