Word: metric
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Birligile. Ataturk liberated law, education and marriage from the mullahs; turned mosques into granaries; switched the day of rest from Friday to Sunday; tossed out the Islamic calendar and ordered in the Gregorian calendar of the Western world. He made suffrage universal, adopted the metric system, ordered all Turks to take on last names, took the first census in Turkish history. Harems were forbidden and monogamy became...
...demand. No foreign competitor knows this better than Canada's Aluminium Ltd., world's biggest producer of primary aluminum ingot. Its salesmen have been calling on the Big Three. Last week, Aluminium Ltd. closed deals with Alcoa and Kaiser to supply them with a whopping 713,000 metric tons of aluminum during the next five years. Price: more than $300 million...
Eternal Spirit. For last week's show, Old Dada-Daddy Marcel Duchamp had hung some of Dada's best humor and bitterest protest. There was a carved wooden head festooned with watchworks, metric rule and alligator wallet, a sickly pink portrait of a man with blotched face and four combs for hair, a gutter collage of torn ticket stubs, discarded buttons, hairpins and old newspapers. A phonograph beeped out Dada sounds, a metronome with a staring eye pasted to the blade ticked away methodically, and every visitor had to pass Marcel Duchamp's own contribution...
Whatever else is ailing in Europe, the steel business is in good health. The Continent's production hit 109 million metric tons in 1952. an alltime peak, the U.N.'s Economic Commission for Europe reported last week. Western Europe turned out nearly 58% of that amount. However, the Iron Curtain lands are coming up fast; in 1952 their production is said to have risen 14%, while the West's rose 8%. Britain, with 16.4 million metric tons, is still the largest steel producer in Western Europe, and gained nearly a million metric tons. Together...
...metric tons of hard coal, an increase of 10% over 1951 but still nowhere near enough to maintain exports and feed its blast furnaces, which still rely on expensive U.S. coking coal...