Word: meters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besides this big engine problem the whole escort program depends on other hard-pressed suppliers. Probably the worst bottleneck is valves made by Crane, Lunkenheimer and Worthington Pump. Shafting comes from such companies as Erie Forge, Camden Forge and American Locomotive. From Cleveland's Bailey Meter Co. and Connecticut's Bristol Co. come meters and regulating devices...
Shelter. City rents in Russia do not vary according to neighborhood but according to monthly income. In Moscow a person in the middle-income bracket pays 2% rubles per square meter of floor space, whether on eight-laned Gorki street or in a converted church, and no one is allowed to occupy over 9 square meters (96 sq. ft.). Since apartments average around 60 square meters of space, single persons and small families have to share apartments with others...
...Sweden's Gunder Haegg: a 3,000-meter run; in 8 min., 1.2 sec., a new world's record; at Stockholm. In less than two months Runner Haegg has set five world's records. The others: one mile (4:06.2), two miles (8:47.8), 1,500 meters (3:45.8), 2,000 meters (5:11.8). If transportation can be arranged, Haegg will tour the U.S. this winter as guest of the Amateur Athletic Union...
...Gaunt & gainly Gunder Haegg, Sweden's No. 1 foot racer: a 2,000-meter run in 5 min., 16.4 sec.; clipping four-tenths of a second off the accepted world's record set by Kansan Archie San Romani in 1937; at Malmö, Sweden. It was the fourth time in three weeks that Haegg had set a new world's record. He ran 1,500 meters in 3:45.8, a mile in 4:06.2, two miles in 8:47.8. Hailed as another Nurmi, Haegg has been invited to tour the U.S. next winter...
Nathalia Crane, famed child-poet of the late '20s, joined the faculty of Manhattan's Hunter College, as a lecturer on "rhythm, meter, rime, tone color, diction, imagery, emotion and imagination in poetry." Now 28, she declared: "It's the first time any poet has had a chance to divulge all the secrets of poetry in a classroom...