Word: kilos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prices still rise practically every day," says one Rio householder, noting that salt went from 90 to 128 cruzeiros a kilo in August alone. Some Brazilians hold two and sometimes three jobs to make ends meet. Hardly anyone has money to save. Every extra cruzeiro is socked into time payments for autos, refrigerators, TV sets and other nonperishable inflation hedges that hold their value...
...United States maintains that while atmospheric and oceanic tests can be detected from outside the Soviet orders, underground tests with a yield below five kilo-tons could be concealed. The U.S. government considers seven inspections yearly necessary to ensure that such clandestine tests are not made, but in recent years advances in seismological detection have made the U.S. insistence on on-site inspection appear unwarranted. According to the Washington Post...
...hairpins, arrived with the jam, the boys at the Snow Leopard sent their Chinese agents to bid for the crop. Even though this has been a bad year for poppies-there was a two-month drought in the hills-the Meo are getting only the equivalent of $20 a kilo (2.2 lbs.). The same kilo, when it reaches the Laotian capital of Vientiane, will be worth $60; at Saigon in South Viet Nam it will bring $1,000, and when it is safely put ashore in San Francisco, the value may leap to $2,000 or more...